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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) 182 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 19. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 74 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 62 0 Browse Search
The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure) 60 0 Browse Search
Elias Nason, McClellan's Own Story: the war for the union, the soldiers who fought it, the civilians who directed it, and his relations to them. 31 1 Browse Search
John G. Nicolay, A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln, condensed from Nicolay and Hayes' Abraham Lincoln: A History 30 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 11. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 28 0 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1. 24 0 Browse Search
Caroline E. Whitcomb, History of the Second Massachusetts Battery of Light Artillery (Nims' Battery): 1861-1865, compiled from records of the Rebellion, official reports, diaries and rosters 20 0 Browse Search
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 4. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier) 18 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: July 18, 1862., [Electronic resource], From Vicksburg. (search)
The navy not dead. When we had lost, whether culpably or not is a pending question, our two greatest achievements in harbor defences — the Virginia, or Merrimac, in Elizabeth river, and the Mississippi at New Orleans — everybody seemed to despair of the navy of the Southern Confederacy during the war. The enemy had the navy of the United States--(for which the South had paid two- thirds of the cost)--he had several powerful Iron-clad vessels, and commanded all the tidewater country of the Atlantic. With the loss of those two great vessels — superior to anything the Yankees had constructed — it was feared we had lost all the chances to build others having no place, except Richmond, from which, after completion, we could successfully float such vessels to the scene of activity. But there was one iron vessel in course of construction at Memphis when the enemy came there, which slipped away and escaped to some point on the Yazoo, where she has remained in safety — the workme