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Title: The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Miller, Francis Trevelyan, 1877-1959 Lanier, Robert S. (Robert Sampson), 1880-
Subjects: United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Pictorial works United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865
Publisher: New York : Review of Reviews Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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fiEVIEW OF REVIEWS CO. THE FLAGSHIP WABASH —THE PRIDE OF THE NAVY IN 61 Sights such as this photograph conveys have passed forever. Tlie type of vessel jiictured here is now asobsolete as the great Harry of King Henry VTII or a Spanish galleon of King Philip. But what a beauti-ful sight she presents; the long clean sweep of her spar-deck, her standing rigging as taut as fiddle-strings,and all her running gear coiled and flemished down—no wonder that the Wabash was the pride of thenavy, and that her crew pointed to the name on their caps with pride when they were ashore. The Wabash was a steam frigate of the first rating. Xo finer vessel could have been found in any foreign navy. Shedisplaced 3,274 tons, carried two 10-inch pivot guns on her spar-deck and a broadside of fourteen 8-inchguns; on her gun-deck she carried twenty-eight 9-inch guns and two 12-pounders. On the deck stands alittle group of three—Admiral Du Pont, who was in command of the South Atlantic blockading squadro

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