Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Norfolk” in chapter 2, page 9 of James Russell Soley, Professor U. S. Navy, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.1, The blockade and the cruisers:
...only a couple of hundred were at the disposal of the Navy Department.
Seamen could not be had either to man the slips that might be commissioned, or to protect the exposed stations at Annapolis and Norfolk .
Prompt measures were taken during the first year to increase
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