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Identifier: photographichist06mill (find matches)
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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JACK-TARS OF THE OLD NAVY A glance at these seasoned men ranged alongside the 9-ineh pivot-gun of tlic sloop-ot-war Wissahickon gives us an idea of tlie appear-ance of the men of the old navy. The face of the gun-captain standing near the breach of his gun shows that he is a sailor throughand tlu-ough. There are very few landsmen pictured here. The old Jack-tar. standing fourth in the right row. who has turned his capinto a ditty bag, harks back to the fighting days when steam had hardly been thought of. He is a survivor of the War of 1812, andremembers the days of Bainbridge, of Decatur, Stewart, and Biddle. Even the younger men have no look of the volunteer aboutthem: they are deep-sea sailors, every one. The Wissahickon was one of the Federal cruisers that had put out in search of the(42)
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COPVRrGHT, 1911, REVIEW OF HEVlEWS CO. THE PIVOT-GUN OF THE WISSAHICKON AND ITS CREW Confederate commerce-destroyers. She was m tlie fleet of Admiral Farragut at New Orleans and ran the batteries at Vicksburg.I-ate in 1862 she was in Carolina waters and in January, 1803, participated in the first attacks on Fort McAllister. She was inAdmiral Dalilgrens fleet during the stirring operations in Charleston harbor and returned to South Carolina waters toward the closeof 18G4, where she captured numerous prizes, enrichmg her officers and crew. The sailors on few of the Federal vessels had a morevaried and adventurous experience of the war than did those of the Wissahickon, and the faces in the picture, both old and young,are those of men ready at any and all times for a fight or a frolic on their beloved ship.

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  • bookyear:1911
  • bookdecade:1910
  • bookcentury:1900
  • bookauthor:Miller__Francis_Trevelyan__1877_1959
  • bookauthor:Lanier__Robert_S___Robert_Sampson___1880_
  • booksubject:United_States____History_Civil_War__1861_1865_Pictorial_works
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  • bookpublisher:New_York___Review_of_Reviews_Co_
  • bookcontributor:New_York_Public_Library
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