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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 14 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 8. (ed. Frank Moore) 4 0 Browse Search
Col. O. M. Roberts, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 11.1, Texas (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 4 0 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2. 2 0 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 3. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 2 0 Browse Search
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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)
the government of Washington, instead of issuing a new proclamation, insisted that the blockade had never been raised, and Commodore Bell was instructed to maintain it in all its force and strictness. The neutral powers made no remonstrance. The early part of this year, which had already seen such a bad beginning in these waters by the capture of Galveston and the loss of the Hatteras, was destined to bring about nothing but disasters to the Federal squadron. Two sailing vessels, the Morning Light and the Velocity, blockaded the entrance of the port of Sabine in Sabine Pass. The Confederates had fitted out at this port two river-steamers, which they had surrounded with walls constructed of bales of cotton. About the 20th of January, taking advantage of a dead calm, these steamers boldly put out to sea to attack the Federal ships, which the absence of wind had doomed to immobility; a few raking shots were sufficient to compel them to surrender. But, being unable to bring them ba