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Title: The American conflict : a history of the great rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-'64 : it's causes, incidents, and results, intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases, with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery, from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union
Year: 1865 (1860s)
Authors: Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Slavery
Publisher: Hartford : O.D. Case & Co. Chicago : Geo. & C.W. Sherwood
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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ources ofnaval warfare. The iron-clads thus pitted againstthe tremendous ordnance of FortSumter and her satellites were thefollowing: 1. Weeliawken, O.apt. John Rodgers ; 2. Passaic, Capt. Percival Drayton; 3. Montauk, Comr John L. Wordea ; 4. Patapsco, Comr Daniel Amraen ; 5. New Ironsides, Comr Thos. Turner; 6. Oatskill, Comr Geo. W. Rodgers ; 7. Nantucket, Comr Donakl M. Fairfax ; 8. Nahant, Comr John Downes ; 9. Keokuk, Lt.-Comr Ales. C. Rhind ; with the gunboats Canandaigua, Una-dilla, Housatonic, Wissahickon, andHuron in reserve, below the bar, readyto support the iron-clads should theyattack the batteries on Morris island.The day was bright, bland, andwarm—like one of the finest of thelater days of a Nortliern May—theair of midday flashing with the wingsof countless butterflies—though aslight haze or smoke in the morningso obscured remoter objects that thelandmarks relied on to give bearings Fbh. 2. ^•Aprils. April 5. *April 6. DUPONTS IRON-CLADS ASSAIL FORT SUMTER. 4G7
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DEFENSES OF CIIARLESTON. in the diflicult navigation (for vesselsof heavy draft) of these intricatechannels were indistinguishable, andthe advance thereby postponed till agentle northern breeze cleared thesky. But, as ebb-tide came at 11A. M., and—the bar being safelypassed—that was deemed the stageof water best fitted to the steering ofthose clumsy alligators—it is notprobable that our plans were seriouslyderanged by this circumstance. Let US improve this pause toglance at the scene, as it imprinteditself on the mind of an observer,scanning it through a powerful field- glass from the Coast Survey steam-boat Bibb, lying in the Swash chan-nel, three miles below Sumter : We are, tlii3 moment, looking directlylip into the harbor and the city, wliioh Heain the vista beyond—its wharves and ships,houses and steeples, standing out in thebackground like a picture. Steeples androofs are crowded with spectators; theneighboring shores are lined with onlookers,just as when, now two years

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