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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 3 3 Browse Search
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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 17: Sherman's March through the Carolinas.--the capture of Fort Fisher. (search)
and was bark-rigged. At her bow was a formidable wrought-iron ram or beak. She first went to sea in August, 1862. we have already met her in Charleston harbor (see page 193). she fought Fort Fisher gallantly and unharmed, and at the close of the war she returned to the Delaware, whence she first set forth. There she was dismantled, and left to repose near League Island, a short distance below Philadelphia, where she was accidentally set on fire, and was destroyed, on Sunday, the 16th of December, 1866. and monitors. ordered to join the Army of the Potomac. See page 292. This put an end to the expedition, and postponed the capture of Wilmington. In the succeeding summer, when preparations were begun for Farragut's attack on the forts at the entrance to Mobile Bay, See page 439. similar arrangements were made for reducing the forts at the entrance to the Cape Fear River. So early as August, armored and unarmored gun-boats began to gather in Hampton Roads; and in October fu