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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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possiblefor attacking vessels to avoid them,it must be felt that the fleet, howeverstrong, which defies and assails them,can only hope to succeed by therarest exhibitions alike of skill andcourage. Ten years had not elapsedsince the immense naval power ofGreat Britain, wielded by a Napier,recoiled before the defenses of Cron-stadt; while no attempt was madeon the fortifications of Odessa. The fleet which Rear-AdiniralFarragut led° to force its way into thebay of Mobile was composed of 4iron-clads and 14 wooden ships-of-war or gunboats, as follows: Aug. 5, 18(U. 650 THE AMERICAN CONFLICT.
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ON 4/0 -^^ I KKKE.NSta OF MOUILE. FARRAGUT ASSAILS FORTS MORGAN AND GAINES. C51 Hartford (flng-sljip), Capt. P. Drayton ;Brooklyn, Capt. James Alden ;Metaconiet, Lt.-Comr J. E. Jouett;Oetorara, Lt.-Oorar C. 11. Green;Richmond, Capt. T. A. Jenkins;Lackawanna, Capt. J. B. Marcliand ;Monongahe)a, Comr J. II. Strong ;Ossipee, Comr W. E. Leroy;Oneida, Comr J. R. M. MuUany;Port Royal, Lt.-Comr B. Glierardi;Seminole, Comr E. Donaldson ;Kennebec, Lt.-Comr W. P. McCann;Itasca, Lt.-Comr George Brown;Galena, Lt.-Comr O. II. Wells; * Tecumseli, Comr T. A. M. Craven; * Manhattan, Comr J. W. A. Nicholson; * Winnebago, Comr T. II. Stevens; * Chickasaw, Lt.-Comr T. II. Perkins. ♦ Iron-clads. Gen. Canbj had sent from NewOrleans Gen. Gordon Granger, witha cooperating land force, perhaps5,000 strong, which had debarked onDauphine island, but which could beof no service for the present; and didnot attempt to be. Pollard says thatour fleet carried 200 guns with 2,800men. Thursday, August 4, had beenfixe

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