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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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ie Mississi))pi River. —151ockade of Mobile, Ala., commenced by U. S. S. Powhatan.28.— Li. S. S. Minnesota begins real blockade of Charleston. —Blockade of Savannah initiated by U. S. gunboat Union.31.— L. S. S. Freeborn, Anacostia, Pawnee, and Resolute attacked Confed. batteries at Aquia Creek, Va. JUNE, 1861. 27.—Engagement between U. S. gunboatsFreeborn and Relianee and Confed. bat-teries at )\Iathias Point, V^a., Conunan-der Ward of the Freeborn, killed. JULY, 1861. 2.— L. S. S. South Carolina begins blockadeof Galveston. i to 7.—Li. S, S. South Carolina ca;)tures ordestroys 10 vessels off Cialvcston. 7.— Infernal machines detected floatingin the Potomac.19.—Captain-Cieneral of Cuba liberated allthe vessels brought into Cuban ports asprizes by Confed. cruiser Sumter.24.— Naval expedition from Fort ^lonroe toBack River, Va., by Lieut. Crosby and.SOO men. Nine sloops and schooners ofthe Confederates burnt, and one schoon-er with bacon and corn captured. ( .3(IS 1
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COPYRIGHT, 1911, REVIEW OF REVrEWS CO. COMMODORE VANDERBILTS PRESENT TO THE GOVERNMENT This side-wheel steamer was presented to the Government hy Commodore Cornehus Vanderhilt in 18(51,when the navy was sorely in need of ships, and she was christened after the donor. In Hampton Roads sheled one of the two columns of fighting-vessels of all sorts that had been assembled to meet the Merrimac,in case she made another attack upon the fleet after her encounter with the Monitor. The Vanderbiltmounted fifteen guns and showed great si)eed. She was employed largely as a cruiser. Her first j>rize wasthe British blockade-runner Peterhofl^, captured off St. Thomas, February 25, 1863. On April 16th shecaught the Gertrude in the Bahamas, and on October 30th the Saxon, off the coast of Africa. Undercommand of Captain C. W. Pickering, she participated in both of the joint-expeditions against Fort Fisher. 3lm;jortaut Naital lEmjaiiirmnitB nf t\)t Oltittl Wat 38.— Confederate privateer Petrel, for

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