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Title: The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Miller, Francis Trevelyan, 1877-1959 Lanier, Robert S. (Robert Sampson), 1880-
Subjects: War photography
Publisher: New York : Review of Reviews Co.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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THE HARTFORD AFTER PASSING THE FORTS A SECOND TIME The photographic chronicling of the most daring deed would remain incomplete without this presentment of the gallant Hartfordas she paused at Baton Rouge on a second and peaceful -idsit in 1882. The rule against the inclusion of any but war-time scenes intliis Photographic History has therefore been suspended in favor of this striking photograph—pre^dously unpublished like the others.The people of New Orleans who remembered the Hartford in 1862 would hardly have recognized her when, twenty years after-ward, she once more steamed up the river and dropped her anchor off the levee. Her appearance, it is seen, was greatly changed;her engines had been altered and she was a much faster vessel than before. When she had passed through the iron hail from the forts,(202)
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COPYRIGHT, 1911, REVIEW OF REVIEWS CO. THE ALTERED APPEARANCE OF THE FAMOUS SHIP ON HER VOYAGE OF PEACE she was not so trim as she is in this picture. Her top-gallant masts had been sent down and all but her lower yards were on deck;cables were slung along her sides and she was stripped for the fray. Lytle, the Confederate photographer, who had photographedthe grand old flagship and her consorts in war-time, also took this photograph of her when she came as a peaceful visitor. The Hart-ford had been for a long time on the European station, and there was hardly a port at which she entered where her name and herfame had not preceded her. Her decks were constantly thronged with visitors, and among her crew were many of the men who hadfought with Farragut. These prideful veterans could still point out some of her honorable scars as they told their adventures.

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