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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 6,437 1 Browse Search
Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation 1,858 0 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 766 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore) 310 0 Browse Search
Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War. 302 0 Browse Search
Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States 300 0 Browse Search
Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 266 0 Browse Search
Henry Morton Stanley, Dorothy Stanley, The Autobiography of Sir Henry Morton Stanley 224 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 5, 13th edition. 222 0 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I. 214 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: February 22, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 4 (search)
Southern Navy. Among the subjects which will engage the early attention of the Southern Confederacy is the establishment of a Navy. It is fortunate for them that, in making this start, they have before them the matured experience of the world as to the best mode of construction equipment and armament of ships-of-war.--Great Britain has been put to enormous expense, first, in changing her sailing vessels to steam vessels, and next, in the adoption of a defensive armor for ships which the inventive genius of Louis Napoleon has just accomplished, and which renders one ship equal to a dozen of the same size not provided with similar armor. Let the new Confederacy begin right at the beginning. Experience has proved that no ship, or squadron of ships, is a match for a fort unless it is protected by the new defence of iron plates, and that with these, vessels can silence fortifications. An iron-plated frigate like the French Gloire or the English Warrtor, would cost, it is true, so