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Alfred Roman, The military operations of General Beauregard in the war between the states, 1861 to 1865	22	0	Browse	Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2	18	0	Browse	Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 29. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones)	14	0	Browse	Search
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The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure)	8	0	Browse	Search
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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 3. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.)	6	0	Browse	Search
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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 3. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Torpedoes. (search)

ith troops and means to capture Fort Branch, but five returned. One was sunk by the fire from the fort, and the rest by torpedoes. Of the five iron-clads sent with other vessels to take Mobile, Alabama (one was tin-clad), three were destroyed by torpedoes. There were fifty-eight vessels sunk by torpedoes in the war, and some of them of no small celebrity, as Admiral Farragut's flag-ship the Harvest Moon, the Thorn, the Commodore Jones, the Monitor Patapsco, Ram Osage, Monitor Milwaukee, Housatonic and others. （Cairo in Yazoo river). Peace societies we must acknowledge a failure in settling national differences by arbitration, since enlightened nations go to war for a mere political abstraction, and vast armies in Europe are kept ready for action, to be frustrated, however, by this torpedo system of mining, carried out according to views. For three years the Confederate Congress legislated on this subject, passing each house alternately for an organized torpedo corps until the th

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