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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 3. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book I:—the war on the Rapidan. (search)
es thickness, were undoubtedly, at that time, the only vessels capable of offering resistance to this projectile. They were therefore the best armed vessels both for attack and for defence; they were also, unfortunately, the slowest in their movements. The Atlanta, with her materiel and personnel, was a magnificent prize. A few days after, having complimented the brave Rodgers upon his success, the Secretary of the Navy, at the request of DuPont, relieved the latter of his command. Admiral Foote, who was appointed in his place, having been carried off by a premature death before he had embarked, the South Atlantic squadron was entrusted to Admiral Dahlgren. He reached Port Royal on the 4th of July—a date rendered memorable by the events which marked that epoch in other sections of the theatre of war. The operations against Charleston were about to be pushed with vigor. Gillmore, who had arrived a month previously, had commenced them at once; but we must reserve their recital.
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 3. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book III:—Pennsylvania. (search)
s from being provisioned and the government from augmenting its immense materiel in order to supply the constantly increasing necessities of the war. It will be easy to form an idea of the importance of this materiel when it is known that it comprised not only the equipment of troops, hospital supplies, forage, and fuel, but even horses, wagons, locomotives, and cars; and, finally, even all the steamers used for the army. The riverfleet, whose operations in 1862 we have described, and which Foote had commanded with so much ability, was equipped by the quartermaster's department; it consisted of 45 vessels and 38 mortar-boats, measuring altogether 19,494 tons. On the 16th of July it was transferred to the Navy Department, but the quartermaster-general still retained control of the nine iron-clad rams, armed under the direction of Colonel Ellet, which had rendered such important services on the Mississippi. At the breaking out of the war the task of organizing transportation by rai