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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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l recruits in order to keepthe quota up to the required numbers. During the war theUnited States navy built two hundred and eight vessels andpurchased four hundred and eighteen. Of these, nearly sixtywere ironclads, mostly monitors. With the introduction of the ironclad and the continualincrease of the thickness and efficiency of the armor as the warprogressed, the guns of the navy also changed in weight andpattern. The advent of the ironclad made necessary the in-troduction of heavier ordnance. The manufacturers of theseguns throughout the Xorth were called upon to provide forthe emergency. At the beginning of the war, the 32-pounderand the 8-inch were almost the highest-j^ower guns in use,though s6me of the steam vessels were provided with 11-inchDahlgren guns. Before the war had closed, the 11-inch Dahl-gren, which had been regarded as a monster at the start,liad been far overshadowed, and the caliber had increased to15-inch, then 18-inch, and finally by a 20-inch that came so (GOl
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FROM THE MERCHANT MARINE—THE FORT JACKSON Here the U. S. S. Fort Jackson lies in Hampton Roads, December, 1804. Tliis powerful side-wheel steamerof 1,770 tons burden was a regular river passenger-steamer before she was purchased by tlie Fetleral Gov-ernment and converted into a gunboat of the second class. Her armament consisted of one lOO-pounder rifle,two 30-pound rifles, and eight 9-inch smooth-bores. The navy had come to know the need of her type duringthe latter half of the war. By the end of 1862, 180 j^urchased vessels had been added to its force. Butmany of these, imlike the Fort Jackson, were frail barks in which officers and men had to fight theheaviest kind of earthworks, often perched at a great height above the water, where their plunging fire couldperforate the vessels decks and boilers or even pass down through their bottoms. But so splendid wasthe organization and discii:)line of the navy from the first that inadequacies of eciuipment were compensatedfor in a most re

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