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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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merce of theNorth. The bold operations of the Nash-ville and other privateers produced a reignof terror on the high seas. Naval and Military Expedition. At the outset of the war the Confederatesoccupied the principal ports of the South,and a number of prominent points on theAtlantic coast. These were fortified by themas well as the means at hand would permit.The general government resolved to capturethese as rapidly as possible, as their reductionwas necessary in order to render the blockadeof the southern coast effectual. The first expe-dition was despatched from Fortress Monroein August, 1861, under Commodore String-ham aud General Butler, and was directedagainst the Confederate works at HatterasInlet, which commanded the entrance toAlbemarle and Pamlico sounds. Theseworks were captured on the twenty-ninth ofAugust. The great extent of the coast to be block-aded by the navy made it necessary that agood harbor at some central point should besecured, where supplies could be stored fof
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6U A£)MiNIStRAtiON OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN, 6§5 the fleet, and where vessels could refill with-out returning to the northern ports. PortRoyal harbor, in South Carolina, was selectedas the best place for this purpose. It wasdefended by Fort Walker on Hilton Headand Fort Beauregard on the opposite side ofthe harbor. A powerful naval and militaryexpedition under Commodore Dupont andGeneral Thomas W. Sherman attacked thesevorks on the seventh of November, andreduced them after terrible bombardment bythe fleet. Port Royal was at once occupiedby the expedition, and during the war wasthe principal depot on the southern coastfor the fleets and armies of the Union. It was not possible, however, to render theblockade effective. Great efforts were madeto increase the number of vessels employedin this duty, but the Confederates succeededin eluding the Union cruisers almost at plea-sure, and a steady communication was main-tained between the southern ports and Eng-land by way of the West Indies. A nu

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