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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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main shrouds twenty-five feetabove the deck. All was silenceaboard till the Hartford wasin easy range of the fort. Thenthe great broadsides of the oldship began to take their part inthe awful cannonade. Duringthe early part of the actionCaptain Drayton, fearing thatsome damage to the riggingmight pitch Farragut over-board, sent Knowles on hisfamous niission. I went up,said the old sailor, with apiece of lead line and made itfast to one of the forwardshrouds, and then took it aroimdthe admiral to the after shroud,making it fast there. The ad-miral said, Never mind, Im allright, but I went ahead andobeyed orders. Later Farragut,undoing the lashing with hisown hands, climbed higher still. QUARTERMASTER KNOWLES
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FARRAGIT AT THE PIXXACLE OF HIS FAME Leaning on the cannon, Commander David Glasgow Farragul and Captain Perei\al l)ra\lon, chief of staff, stand on the deck of theHartford, after the victory in Mobile Bay, of August, 186-1. When Gustavus V. Fox, Assistant Secretary of the Xa\y, proposedthe capture of X^evv Orleans from the soutliward he was regarded as utterly foolhardy. All that was needed, howe\er, to make Foxsplan successful was the man with si)irit enough to imdertake it and judgment sufficient to carry it out. Here on the deck of the fine newsloop-of-war that had been assigned to him as flagship, stands the man who had just accomplished a greater feat that made him a worldfigure as famous as Nelson. The Confederacy had found its great general among its own people, but the great admiral of the war,although of Southern birth, had refused to fight against the flag for which, as a boy in the War of 1812, he had seen men die. Fullof the fighting spirit of the old navy, he was able to

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