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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
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WORK AFLOAT AND ASHORE—THE ^■A^■.VL STATION AT CAIROHere the Federal gunboats put in for supplies and minor repairs. The station at Cairo, first established by CaplaiuFoote in September, 1861, soon proved inadequate for the needs of the river squadrons, since all repairs had to be madein the water. The lower picture shows the naval station at Mound City. Here were laid the keels of three of theseries of the Eads ironclads, and here the unlucky Carondelet was repaired after her injuries at Fort Donelson. Thelarge force of shipwrights, carpenters, mechanics, and engineers was kept constantlj at work, often night and day.This was the only naval depot of the river fleet in the West. Said .\dmiral Porter in 1885: Those who rememberthe navy-yard at Motmd City, near Cairo, and the large fleet wliich grew from the small squadron first put afloat, willwontler why we should require so many navy-yards at the present tinie. when we hardly fit out a dozen vessels in a year.

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