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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 3. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 247 (search)
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235. operations of the Stone fleet.
A correspondent of the New York Tribune gives the following minute account of the fleet:
off Port Royal entrance, steamship Cahawba, Dec. 17, 1861.
To Charleston!--that is our destination; or, more accurately, to the bar at the entrance of the harbor of that doomed city.
The terrible stone fleet, on a mission as pitiless as the granite that freights it, sailed this morning from the harbor of Port Royal, and before two days are past will have made Charleston an inland city.
This western bride of the sea is to be a widow; the decree of divorce is entered in a court without appeals; and the fleet which executes it, storm-tossed, shattered, and unworthy of the sea, is a fit counterpart to the gorgeous galleys with whose stately procession the Doge yearly wedded Venice to the Adriatic.
Against these crumbling hulks the batteries which silenced Sumter point their guns in vain.
They have taken counsel of the Romans, who declared tha