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Title: The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Miller, Francis Trevelyan, 1877-1959 Lanier, Robert S. (Robert Sampson), 1880-
Subjects: War photography
Publisher: New York : Review of Reviews Co.
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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coast. Such ablockade could for the moment be only a paper one, as, tojustif)^ the seizure on the high seas of a neutral attemptingto enter a port declared blockaded, there must be a force off theport sufficient to make entry dangerous. To enable capturesof such shijJS to be made, the Federal Government soon had toyield its theory of insurgency and treat the situation as oneof belligerency. The indecisive attitude of the administration during theperiod between the secession of South Carolina, Decem))er 20,1860, and the 4th of INIarch, 1861, was of a character to encour-age the secessionist movement to the utmost. The onh^ fortsof the South wliich were garrisoned were JMonroe and Sum-ter. Notwithstanding General Scotts report of inabihty togarrison the Southern forts for want of men, there can be no((uestion, from the returns of tlie AVar Department itself, thatthere was a number (j(uite sufficient to liold them against anybut tried soldiers in large force. Two hundred men at each (22)
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COPYRrGHT, 19r A FIGHTING INVENTORREAR-ADMIRAL JOHN A. DAHLGREN ON BOARD THE U. S. S. CHARLESTON HARBOR PAWNEE IN Over the admirals right shoulder can be seen the ruins of the still unsurrendered Fort Smnter. It wasfor his services on land that Dahlgren was made rear-admiral, Feb. 7, 18G;5. He had been employed onordnance duty between 1847-57. With the exception of a short cruise, he had sjxMit the ten years in per-fecting the Dahlgren gmi, his ow^l invention. In 186-2 he was chief of the Bin-eau of Ordnance. Fromthis he stepped into command of the South Atlantic blockading squadron, July fl, 1863. From that timeon he showed the qualities of a great commander in active service. Not only did he bravely and wiselydirect the naval activities in Charleston Harbor, but in February, 1864, he led the na^al expedition up theSt. Johns River that was to cooperate with the troops in gaining a hold in Florida. In December, 1864,he cooperated with General Sherman in the caj^ture of Savannah, and o

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