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... ship channel , at the entrance to the har- bor , and facing Fort Moultrie just a mile away . The proper war garrison of all the forts should have been over a thousand men . The actual garrison including officers , band , and the Castle ...
... ship channel , at the entrance to the har- bor , and facing Fort Moultrie just a mile away . The proper war garrison of all the forts should have been over a thousand men . The actual garrison including officers , band , and the Castle ...
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... ships were sunk at anchor . But many valuable stores fell into enemy hands at both these Virginian outposts of the Fed- eral forces . Through six long days of dire suspense not a ship , not a train , came into Washington . At last , on ...
... ships were sunk at anchor . But many valuable stores fell into enemy hands at both these Virginian outposts of the Fed- eral forces . Through six long days of dire suspense not a ship , not a train , came into Washington . At last , on ...
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... and that civilian inter- ference which is very much the same as if a land- lubber owning a ship should grab the wheel re- peatedly in the middle of a storm . Simon Cameron , X then Secretary of War , was good enough as THE CLASH : 1861 33.
... and that civilian inter- ference which is very much the same as if a land- lubber owning a ship should grab the wheel re- peatedly in the middle of a storm . Simon Cameron , X then Secretary of War , was good enough as THE CLASH : 1861 33.
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... ships . It owned com- paratively few of the vessels that carried its rice , cotton , and tobacco crops to market and brought back made goods in return . Yankees , Britishers , and Bluenoses ( as Nova Scotian craft were called ) did most ...
... ships . It owned com- paratively few of the vessels that carried its rice , cotton , and tobacco crops to market and brought back made goods in return . Yankees , Britishers , and Bluenoses ( as Nova Scotian craft were called ) did most ...
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... ships or for- eigners that ran the blockade , and of all her other efforts , was a landsman's country that could make no real headway against the native sea - power of the North . Perhaps the worst of all the disabilities under which ...
... ships or for- eigners that ran the blockade , and of all her other efforts , was a landsman's country that could make no real headway against the native sea - power of the North . Perhaps the worst of all the disabilities under which ...
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