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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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yn commenced the blockade of the ^lississippi River. —Blockade of Mobile, Ala., commenced by U. S. S. Powhatan.28.— U. S. S. Minnesota begins real blockade of Charleston. —Blockade of Savannah initiated by L. S. gunboat Union.31.— U. S. S. Freeborn, Anacostia, Pawnee, and Resolute attacked Confed. batteries at Aquia Creek, Va. JUNE, 1861, -Engagement between U. S. gunboatsFreeborn and lieliance and Confed. bat-teries at I\Latliias Point, Va., Comman-der Ward of the Freeborn killed. JULY, 1861. .— U. S. S. South Carolina begins blockade of Galveston.to 7.—U. S. S. South Carolina captures ordestroys 10 vessels off Galveston. .— Infernal machines detected floatingin the Potomac. .—Captain-General of Cuba liberated allthe vessels brought into Cuban ports asprizes by Confed. cruiser Sumter. .— Naval expedition from Fort Monroe toBack River, Va., by Lieut. Crosby and300 men. Nine sloops and schooners ofthe Confederates burnt, and one schoon-er with bacon and corn captured.
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COMMODORE VANDERBILTS PRESENT TO THE GOVERNMENT This side-wheel steamer was presented to the Government by Commodore Cornehus Vanderbilt in 1861,when the navy was sorely in need of ships, and she was christened after the donor. In Hampton Roatls sheled one of the two columns of fighting-vessels of all sorts that had been assembled to meet the )Merriniac,in case she made another attack upon the fleet after her encounter with the (Monitor. The Vanderbiltmounted fifteen guns and showed great speed. She was employed largely as a cruiser. Her first prize wasthe British blockade-runner Peterhoff, captured off St. Thomas, February 25, 1863. On April 16th shecaught the Gertrude in the Bahamas, and on October 30th the Saxon, off the coast of Africa. Undercommand of Captain C. AV. Pickering, she participated in both of the joint-expeditions against Fort Fisher. ilmpnrtant Naual Eugag^mrnta nf 1I;0 Olml War 28.— Confederate privateer Petrel, formerlyU. S. re\enue cutter Aiken, sunk by U.S. fri

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