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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)
e a superior force. The blockade thus raised cannot be re-established except by again granting to neutrals all the delays required for its proclamation: this secures the opening of the port for a few weeks at least. Such had been the result of Renshaw's disaster at Galveston, the blockade of which port the Confederates had effectually raised. But the opening of that port, separated by immense deserts from the rest of the Confederacy, was of small importance, while that of the bay of Charlesl remember, a signal check on the 1st of January, 1863, before Galveston. The first six months of this year, which had commenced so unpropitiously, were only noted by new misfortunes, although of less gravity. This division, after the death of Renshaw, had been entrusted to Commodore Bell, a sailor of great distinction; the officers placed under his command were full of zeal, and many of them possessed the experience, knowledge, and daring necessary to accomplish the difficult task which had