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Title: Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ..
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Northrop, Henry Davenport, 1836-1909
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Publisher: Philadelphia, National pub co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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768 BOAT OF THE DEERHOUND RESCUING CAPTAIN SEMMES ADMINISTRATION OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 769 sailed to the Cape Fear. Fort Fisher wassubjected to a vigorous bombardment, whichwas begun on the twenty-fourth of Decem-ber, and the troops were landed; but at thelast moment General Butler decided that thefort was too strong to he assaulted, and theexpedition returned to Hampton Roads. Mobile in August of that year. In January,1863, she ran the blockade, and in threemonths captured and destroyed fifteen mer-chant vessels. She was at length seized inthe harbor of Bahia, in Brazil, by a Federalman-of-war, and taken to Hampton Roads.The Brazilian Government, resenting this
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SINKING OF THE ALABAMA BY THE KEARSARGE. Since the opening of the war the Confed-erate cruisers had nearly driven the commerceof the Northern States from the ocean.These vessels were built in England, andwere usually manned by crews of Englishseamen under Confederate naval officers.One of these, the Florida, put to sea in thesummer of 1862, and succeeded in reaching49 breach of its neutrality, demanded the releaseof the Florida, but while the negotiationswere in progress, she was sunk in HamptonRoads by a collision with another vessel. The most famous of all the Confederatecruisers, was the Alabama. She was builtat Liverpool, and was suffered to go to seain spite of the protest of the American fjo THE CIVIL WAR. minister at London. She was co mmanded by-Captain Raphael Semmes, ard during herlong career, captured sixty-five merchantvessels, and destroyed over ten millions ofdollars worth of property. During her entirecareer, she never entered a Confederate port.In the summer of 1864, s

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