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Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War. 158 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 105 3 Browse Search
James Russell Soley, Professor U. S. Navy, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.1, The blockade and the cruisers (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 76 0 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1. 68 0 Browse Search
James Barnes, author of David G. Farragut, Naval Actions of 1812, Yank ee Ships and Yankee Sailors, Commodore Bainbridge , The Blockaders, and other naval and historical works, The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 6: The Navy. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 62 4 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2. 58 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 11. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 48 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 4. (ed. Frank Moore) 40 2 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 3. (ed. Frank Moore) 40 2 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 13. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 36 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: August 21, 1861., [Electronic resource], The Virginia seaboard. (search)
rld when such independence shall have been established. As soon as cause follows effect, so soon, as you very properly remark, the inevitable destiny of Norfolk is to be the great commercial emporium of the South and the great centre of an export and import trade. The thraldom which has bound ours, like every port South, to the North being broken, its position, unrivalled harbor, the various lines of railroad leading to it from the interior, the rivers emptying into the Chesapeake, and Hampton Roads in its vicinity, its proximity to the sea, and finally, the certainty of the completion, at no distant day, of the canal to the Ohio--one terminus of which will be our harbor-- all seem to indicate with unerring certainty this as the great trade centre of the South. To the exporter this port presents a most favorable point for successful operations. Having the use of free shipping, unencumbered by navigation laws; all nations competing for the carrying trade, flue warehouses and wh