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... port of Charleston . These defenses , being of vital con- sequence to both sides , were soon to attract the strained attention of the whole country . There were three minor forts : Castle Pinckney , dozing away , in charge of a solitary ...
... port of Charleston . These defenses , being of vital con- sequence to both sides , were soon to attract the strained attention of the whole country . There were three minor forts : Castle Pinckney , dozing away , in charge of a solitary ...
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... port from South Carolina round to Texas . Eight days afterwards he extended it to North Carolina and Virginia . But in the meantime Lincoln had been himself marooned in Washington . On the nineteenth of April , the day he declared his ...
... port from South Carolina round to Texas . Eight days afterwards he extended it to North Carolina and Virginia . But in the meantime Lincoln had been himself marooned in Washington . On the nineteenth of April , the day he declared his ...
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... iron inland port , and Philadelphia , the great seaport , less than three hundred miles away . The same isthmus narrows to less 66 CAPTAINS OF THE CIVIL WAR THE COMBATANTS 66 THE NAVAL WAR: 1862 66 84 THE RIVER WAR: 1862 66 116.
... iron inland port , and Philadelphia , the great seaport , less than three hundred miles away . The same isthmus narrows to less 66 CAPTAINS OF THE CIVIL WAR THE COMBATANTS 66 THE NAVAL WAR: 1862 66 84 THE RIVER WAR: 1862 66 116.
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... those between the Ohio River port of Wheeling and the Navy Yard at Washington . Nor was this virtual enislement the only ad- vantage to be won . For while the strong right arm X X of Union sea - power , facing northward THE COMBATANTS 67.
... those between the Ohio River port of Wheeling and the Navy Yard at Washington . Nor was this virtual enislement the only ad- vantage to be won . For while the strong right arm X X of Union sea - power , facing northward THE COMBATANTS 67.
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... port . Raiders did better and for a much longer time . The Shenan- doah was burning Northern whalers in Bering Sea at the end of the war . The Sumter and the Florida cut a wide swath under instructions which " left much to discretion ...
... port . Raiders did better and for a much longer time . The Shenan- doah was burning Northern whalers in Bering Sea at the end of the war . The Sumter and the Florida cut a wide swath under instructions which " left much to discretion ...
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