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Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War., Chapter 1: organization of the Navy Department.--blockade-runners, etc. (search)
jurisdiction. The communications that were addressed to Congress from time to time, by the Navy Department, show conclusively that the officers who filled the different positions, from the Secretary down had a very clear comprehension of the situation in all its details and that at no time was Congress without information of all that was going on in the Navy, or of what was required to keep it in efficient condition. It was seen very early in the struggle that the policy of England and France was unfriendly to the Union side, which was fully evinced in the case of the Trent later on, and all the influence and argument of the Navy Department was brought to bear upon Congress to place our Navy in a position to meet every attempt on the part of foreign governments to meddle in our affairs. Hence it was that we finally commenced building a class of vessels that set at defiance those who seemed disposed. to interfere with us, and left us, at the end of the civil war, mistress of the
Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War., Chapter 4: death of Ellsworth.--capture of Alexandria, Va.--Potomac flotilla. (search)
een up to that time in not having in the Navy a class of vessels suitable for just such occasions as this, and how poor indeed was our merchant marine when it could provide nothing better than the Freeborn, Anacostia and the Resolute--three high-sounding names, which seem now so insignificant beside the Miantonomoh, Puritan, etc., vessels that eventually revolutionized the navies of the world, and made us, at one time, as regards the defence of our coast, equal if not superior to England and France. On the following day Commander Ward resumed the engagement at Aquia Creek, keeping up an incessant fire for five hours, only ceasing upon the over-fatigue of his men. The enemy were again driven out of their works, but carried their artillery away with them. Some damage was done the flotilla, and the Freeborn was obliged in consequence to go to Washington for repairs; there was no loss of life, nor were there any wounded on this occasion. The flotilla had been increased by the Pawnee
Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War., Chapter 6: naval expedition against Port Royal and capture of that place. (search)
Civil War, and has stood the test of criticism both at home and abroad. It was not so momentous an affair as the battles of New Orleans, Mobile or Fort Fisher; but it was of greater importance to the country, for it was a gleam of sunshine bursting through the dark clouds which enveloped the Union horizon. The Union forces had met with little save misfortune from the day when the Confederates fired on Fort Sumter, and the battle of Bull Run had humiliated us before the world and incited France and England to meddle in our affairs. The victory at Port Royal put new life into Union hearts. The North had seen arsenals and fort all Interior of Fort Beauregard at Bay Point, S. C., captured by the naval forces under Captain Dupont. along the Southern coast fall into Confederate hands with scarcely an effort made to prevent it, and now, when least expected,the Union people were exalted in their own estimation. The Navy had come to the rescue and gained a complete victory in the im
Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War., Chapter 7: the Trent affair. (search)
om the Confederate Government to the Courts of England and France; the other two were Messrs. Eustis and McFarland, attachesextend to us the courtesy that would have been extended to France or Russia under like circumstances. It all looked very er deck two insurgents, who were proceeding to England and France on an errand of treason against their own country. He say, on the 10th December, the Minister of Foreign Affairs in France wrote to the representative of that court at Washington: The arrest had produced in France, if not the same emotion as in England, at least extreme astonishmient and sensation. ught to bear upon the government and the attitude taken by France, wise counsels finally prevailed; and it was determined by could turn them out. It is not improbable that neither France nor England would have taken so fierce a stand if the Tren it was uncertain whether they would be received or not by France or by England It was necessary that the administration
Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War., Chapter 12: fight between the Merrimac and Monitor, March 8, 1862. (search)
this effect they rather overdid the matter. The lesson was not lost on the Government during the war. The experience we gained by the loss of the Congress and Cumberland was worth a dozen frigates, although we mourned the brave fellows who fell gloriously fighting for their country. Had there been no Merrimac we should never have built those magnificent ironclads, which for a time placed our Navy in the front rank of the navies of the world, and enabled us to bid defiance to England and France, who were too much inclined to meddle with our affairs. The Merrimac taught our legislators the necessity of being more liberal in our naval expenditures, and to build armored vessels such as would not only be able to stand the heaviest seas, but to batter down the strongest forts, or destroy any enemy's vessel that came upon our coast. After the war was over the lesson was unfortunately soon forgotten, and in a few years the Navy, which was so powerful at the close of the rebellion, r
Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War., Chapter 32: Navy Department.--energies displayed.--building of iron-clads (search)
on-clad over the most powerful war-ship ever until that time built in any navy, placed us on an equality with England and France, and gave our government a sure plan they could follow with safety. Yes, but we would have been saved the disgrace andking on with amazement at the Federal Government while the latter was building a Navy capable of setting at defiance even France or England. While Mr. Fox, the Assistant Secretary, was bending all his energies to devise the class of vessels best sropriations to oppress the Southern people; and it was only when anxiety was felt lest we might be involved in a war with France or England that patriotic feelings got the upper hand of sectional tendencies, and Congress came forward and voted the neain H. A. Wise. U. S. Navy, Chief of Bureau of Ordance. out of all which grew up a Navy that at one time bade defiance to France and England, who, in consequence, let us alone to work out our own destiny. Among others who were in favor of building
Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War., Chapter 39: Miscellaneous operations, land and sea.--operations in the Nansemond, Cape Fear, Pamunky, Chucka Tuck and James Rivers.--destruction of blockade-runners.--adventures of Lieutenant Cushing, etc. (search)
ar River. daring adventures of Lieutenant Cushing. The year 1864 opened with flattering prospects for the Union cause, owing to the important successes gained over the enemy in 1863, and the constantly increasing losses in material by the Confederates in conse-quence of the stringent blockade of the coast. The Federal Navy had been so far strengthened with a class of vessels superior to anything of which the powers of Europe could boast, that it was no longer anticipated that England or France would interfere in our domestic affairs. The battle of Gettysburg, which caused General Lee to fall back upon Richmond, and the surrender of Port Hudson and Vicksburg, which opened the Mississippi to the sea, were the severest blows the Confederacy had received. In the opinion of many persons well qualified to judge, the possession of the Mississippi and its tributaries by the Federals was the death-blow to the Southern cause, and the final collapse of the Rebellion was simply a matter o
Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War., Chapter 45: the cruise of the Sumter and the havoc she committed. (search)
elligerent rights. the policy of England and France. Semmes' reputation. the commissioning of t recognizing these cruisers, Great Britain and France were encouraging a kind of predatory warfare u Spanish authorities towards the Confederacy. France and England had issued proclamations forbiddinvernment, following the example of England and France, issued a proclamation that no prizes should b in due time, followed the lead of England and France in the matter of excluding prizes from her porleading powers of Europe, viz.: Great Britain, France, Spain, etc., as your Excellency must be awarein the face of the truckling of England and of France. Semmes had been in the Caribbean Sea from the idea that the Confederacy had England and France to back her, and would be acknowledged by all hington was President, and Genet Minister from France to the United States, certain French privateerlined to receive him as tile representative of France. Yet the French had materially assisted us to
Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War., chapter 48 (search)
very much like the ways of the buccaneers, who, in years gone by, used to meet at these rendezvous, and prepare for raids on harmless merchantmen and their helpless passengers; but these people were pirates in every sense of the word — ignorant, cold-blooded, brutal men, who had no nationality, and not education enough to teach them right from wrong. The Florida, however, was not a pirate. It had been declared by the most civilized and Christian nation on the face of the earth, followed by France, that these vessels were belligerents, and entitled to all belligerent rights. The only trouble was that England. in her anxiety to follow a strictly neutral course (!), was not careful enough to see her own laws maintained, and her Foreign Enlistment Act strictly enforced. Had she done so, the Confederate cruisers would never have sailed from an English port; or, if they did, the British Navy would have been instructed to arrest them on the high seas, or in any English port, for a violat
Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War., chapter 51 (search)
otection of their own coast against a foreign foe, and for the capture of the Confederate cruisers which were then committing such havoc upon Federal commerce. No one knew at what time the United States might be involved in war with England or France, particularly the former country, which had afforded the South so much assistance in fitting out cruisers, that matters could not go on any longer without subjecting the Federal Government to the contempt of all civilized Powers. Although the Coederals may be said to have been in their infancy in such matters, and had to make great exertions to catch up with the powers of Europe; but by the end of 1864 they were quite in a condition to vindicate their rights and rebuke Great Britain and France for the unfair advantage they had taken in their hour of distress. Besides a number of single-turreted Monitors (the names of which have often appeared in these pages), there were built seven or eight double-turreted Monitors of the Monadnock cl
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