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... Fort Sumter . By the be- ginning of July General Patterson , a veteran of " 1812 " and Mexico , was in command up the ... Fortress Monroe . From the Kanawha to Grafton there were only roads . From Grafton to Cumberland there was rail as ...
... Fort Sumter . By the be- ginning of July General Patterson , a veteran of " 1812 " and Mexico , was in command up the ... Fortress Monroe . From the Kanawha to Grafton there were only roads . From Grafton to Cumberland there was rail as ...
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William Wood. Fortress Monroe there was water fit for any fleet . The Union armies along this semicircle were not only twice as numerous as the Confederates facing them but they were backed by a sea - power , both naval and mercantile ...
William Wood. Fortress Monroe there was water fit for any fleet . The Union armies along this semicircle were not only twice as numerous as the Confederates facing them but they were backed by a sea - power , both naval and mercantile ...
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... Monroe right on the flank of the South . And sea - power likewise enabled the North to take or retake other points ... forts at Hatteras Inlet , North Carolina , were compelled to surrender to a joint naval and military expedition under ...
... Monroe right on the flank of the South . And sea - power likewise enabled the North to take or retake other points ... forts at Hatteras Inlet , North Carolina , were compelled to surrender to a joint naval and military expedition under ...
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... Fortress Monroe , only twelve miles north along a waterway which was under the absolute control of their navy , and though the Confederates had nothing but an inadequate little untrained force on the spot . Among the spoils of war ...
... Fortress Monroe , only twelve miles north along a waterway which was under the absolute control of their navy , and though the Confederates had nothing but an inadequate little untrained force on the spot . Among the spoils of war ...
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... Fortress Monroe . Her underwater hull was shipshape enough ; but her superstructure — a round iron tower resting on a very low deck was not . Con- temptuous eye - witnesses described her very well as looking like a tin can on a shingle ...
... Fortress Monroe . Her underwater hull was shipshape enough ; but her superstructure — a round iron tower resting on a very low deck was not . Con- temptuous eye - witnesses described her very well as looking like a tin can on a shingle ...
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