. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . lah. Iroquois, JVifoming,and Seminole had been placed in commission. These shipswere of the highest develojied type of construction and com-pared favorably at that time with any war vessels in the world. Summing up the serviceable navy, we find that it con-sisted of two sailing frigates, eleven sailing sloops, one screwfrigate, five screw sloops of the first class, three side-wheelsteamers, eight screw sloops of the second class, and five screwsloo2:)s of the third cl
. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . lah. Iroquois, JVifoming,and Seminole had been placed in commission. These shipswere of the highest develojied type of construction and com-pared favorably at that time with any war vessels in the world. Summing up the serviceable navy, we find that it con-sisted of two sailing frigates, eleven sailing sloops, one screwfrigate, five screw sloops of the first class, three side-wheelsteamers, eight screw sloops of the second class, and five screwsloo2:)s of the third class. Available, but laid up in variousyards, were other vessels, including eighteen projjclled by sailalone, five screw frigates, one screw slfiop, and three or fourside-wheel steamers. Vet, in spite of all this showing, at theojjening of the year 1861 there was presented to the Nationa remarkable condition of affairs—a condition that it is almostunbelievable that it should have existed. The country stoodaghast at its own mij)re])are(lness. There were but two ships available to sjfuard the entire Atlantic coast! N ^ p 1.
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