. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . 0 k. COPYRIGHT, len, PATRIOT PUB LO. FROM THE MERCHANT ]\L\RINE—THE FORT JACKSON Here the U. S. S. Fort Jackson lies in Hampton Roads, December, 1864. This powerful side-wheel steamerof 1,770 tons burden was a regular river passenger-steamer before she was purchased by the Federal Gov-ernment and converted into a gunboat of the second class. Her armament consisted of one 100-pounder rifle,two 30-pound rifles, and eight 9-inch smooth-bores. The navy had come to know th
. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . 0 k. COPYRIGHT, len, PATRIOT PUB LO. FROM THE MERCHANT ]\L\RINE—THE FORT JACKSON Here the U. S. S. Fort Jackson lies in Hampton Roads, December, 1864. This powerful side-wheel steamerof 1,770 tons burden was a regular river passenger-steamer before she was purchased by the Federal Gov-ernment and converted into a gunboat of the second class. Her armament consisted of one 100-pounder rifle,two 30-pound rifles, and eight 9-inch smooth-bores. The navy had come to know the need of her type duringthe latter half of the war. By the end of 1862, 180 purchased vessels had been added to its force. Butmany of these, unlike the Fort Jackson, were frail barks in which officers and men had to fight theheaviest kind of earthworks, often perched at a great height above the water, where their plunging fire couldperforate the vessels decks and boilers or even pass down through their bottoms. But so splendid wasthe organization and discipline of the navy from the first that inadecjuacies of equipment were
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