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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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prisoners of war. On thetenth, the Confederate squadron in AlbemarleSound was attacked and destroyed, or cap-tured. Having established himself firmly on Ro-anoke Island, General Burnside prepared toreduce the towns along the coast of NorthCarolina. On the fourteenth of March, New-berne surrendered to him, and on the twenty-fifth of April, Fort Macon, at the entrance ofBeaufort Harbor, one of the strongest workson the coast, capitulated. Successes on the Florida Coast. Some important successes were won onthe Coast of Florida during the spring of thisyear. An expedition from Port Royal cap-itured Fernandina and Fort Clinch, on thetwenty-eighth of February, and a little later ;Jacksonville, on the St. Johns River, and St.Augustine passed into the hands of the Fed- 1eral troops. Brunswick and Darien, import-ant places on the coast of Georgia, were cap-tured about the same time. The most important naval expedition ofthe year was that which resulted in thecapture of New Orleans. The Federal
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702 PORTRAITS OF THE PRINCIPAL NAVAL COMMANDERS DURING THE WAR. ADMINISTRATION OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN. ^o\ (joveniment had recognized from the firslthe importance of regaining possession of theMississippi, and, as we have seen, a large fleetof gunboats had been prepared on the upperwaters of that stream to co-operate with thearmy in its efforts to capture the fortifiedposts along the river. All these efforts, how-ever, were useless as long as the Confederatesretained possession of the lower river or ofthe important city of New Orleans, the com-mercial metropolis of the South. It wasresolved at an early period of the struggle towrest New Orleans from the Confederates,and a fleet of forty-five vessels of war andmortar-boats was assembled for this purpose,and placed under command of CommodoreFarragut, an able and experienced officer.To the fleet was added a force of fifteenthousand troops, under General B. F. Butler.The expedition rendezvoused at Ship Island,near the mouth of the Mississippi

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