. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . omes Avere in the South had beenconstantly resigning from the service. The Navy DepartmentAAas seriously hampered through their loss. Shortly after theojjening of the war, it became necessary to curtail the courseat the Xaval Academy at Annapohs, and the last-year classAvas ordered on active duty to fill the places made A^acant bythe many resignations. At the opening of the Avar, the Fed-eral navy had fourteen hundred and fifty-seven officers andseAenty-six hundred seamen. This number Avas constantly in-creased throughout the Avar,
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . omes Avere in the South had beenconstantly resigning from the service. The Navy DepartmentAAas seriously hampered through their loss. Shortly after theojjening of the war, it became necessary to curtail the courseat the Xaval Academy at Annapohs, and the last-year classAvas ordered on active duty to fill the places made A^acant bythe many resignations. At the opening of the Avar, the Fed-eral navy had fourteen hundred and fifty-seven officers andseAenty-six hundred seamen. This number Avas constantly in-creased throughout the Avar, and at the close there Avere no lessthan seventy-five hundred officers and fifty-one thousand fivehundred seamen. When the Lincoln administration came into poAver in1801, the Secretary of the Xavy imder the Buchanan admin-istration, Isaac Toucey, of Hartford, Connecticut, Avas suc-ceeded by his fellow toAvnsman, Gideon Welles, Avhose expe-rience as chief of the bin-eau of provisions and clothing inthe Xavy Department from 1846 to 1849 had familiarized [50 1. OF REVJEWS GO. THE COLORAD()~A FRKIATK OF THK OLD NAVY The Colorado was one of six lO-gun screw frigates, the pride and strength of the Federal navy in (il. Like most of her sister-ships of the old navy, the Colorado (built for sea fighting) was prevented by her size from getting up the narrow channels, andher gallant commander, Theodorus Bailey, had to lead the fleet at New Orleans past the forts in another vessel. On September 14,1861, at Pensacola, volunteers from the Colorados crew in four boats, led by Lieutenant J. H. Russell, carried oflf a cuttingout expedition. They drove the stubbornly resisting crew from the Confederate privateer Judah and destroyed the vessel.[e-4] liim with the details of department work. Under Welles, asassistant secretary, Avas appointed Gustavus V. Fox, a bril-liant naval officer, whose eighteen years in the service had wellfitted him for the work he was to take up, and whose talentsand for
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