. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . he monitors Weeluetohen, Passaic, Montauh,Patapsco, CatsAiU, Nantucket, and Naliant, besides the mon-itor Keokuk, of a slightly different pattern from the Erics-son floating turrets. The game of blockade-running became so expensive thatduring the last few months of the war it was practically aban-doned. JMany of the blockade-runners which had found it im-possible to escape were dismantled, it being useless to at-tempt to break through the watching line. As port after portfell into Federal possession, it was not necessary to maintai
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . he monitors Weeluetohen, Passaic, Montauh,Patapsco, CatsAiU, Nantucket, and Naliant, besides the mon-itor Keokuk, of a slightly different pattern from the Erics-son floating turrets. The game of blockade-running became so expensive thatduring the last few months of the war it was practically aban-doned. JMany of the blockade-runners which had found it im-possible to escape were dismantled, it being useless to at-tempt to break through the watching line. As port after portfell into Federal possession, it was not necessary to maintainso strict a watch, but there was one other factor that helpedto decide matters—it was the waning and flnal disa])])earanceof the Confederate credit abroad, for the Government claimedfor itself a ])ercentage of every cargo of cotton. The blockadehad accom])lished this, and in keeping the foreign-built cruisersfrom rende/Aousing on their own shore, had confined theirefforts merely to the destruction of commerce-carrying mer-chant ships on the far high V THE BIRTH OP^ THE IRONCLADS
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