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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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learn the new lessons. The enlisted man who had sur-vived the sailing days lacked also two essential qualificationsfor the modern sailor: the first was education; the second,adaptability. Innovations were a bugbear to him; he foughtprogress and invention with all his miglit. Just as the intro-duction of gunpowder changed the manner and methods ofland fighting, so did the introduction of steam into ships revo-lutionize the fighting tactics of navies. But it was a long timebefore steam and the marine engine came to be regarded asmore than an auxiliary factor in shipbuilding. The navy of the Civil War was recruited from all sorts andconditions of men. The real sailor was in the minority. NearlytAvo-thirds of the men who fought were rated as landsmen, andalthough they became good gunners, few progressed higher thanordinary seamen. The old A Bs of the elder service weregraduated to petty officers, and of the commissioned volunteerswhose acting ranks during the war were those of masters and
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COPYRIGHT, 1911, REVIEW OF REVIEWS ( AMUSEMENT DURING THE BLOCKADEMINSTRELS ON THE FLAGSHIP WABASH A ships coin))any is a little world by itself. As one of the principal objects of the inhabitants of the earthis to amnse themselves, so it is with the crew of a vessel at sea. The man who can sing, dance, play thebanjo or the fiddle is always sure of an appreciative audience in the hours off duty. On many of the largercraft there were formed orchestras, amateur theatrical companies, and minstrel troupes who used to gettogether to rehearse, and guxe entertainments to which very often the officers of all the ships of the fleetwere glad to be invited. Time grew heavy and the hours lagged in each others laps during the tediousblockade. The flagshij) Wabash became renowned throughout the fleet for her minstrels, whose goodmusic and amusing songs helped to pass many a long evening. On more than one occasion regidar ballswere given tliat, although not attended by the fair sex, did not lack in

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