. Field, fort and fleet; being a series of brilliant and authentic sketches of the most notable battles of the late civil war . news of Lees surrender was received. Every now and then, after the blockade was fairly organized, thisor that Federal admiral was wont to boast of the number of cap-tures he had made and his success in shutting np the port. Whilesome captures were made, there was never a time from first to lastthat any port was so carefully watched that blockade running wasnot carried on as a regular business. Stonewall Jackson and other Confederates captured from theFederal armies in
. Field, fort and fleet; being a series of brilliant and authentic sketches of the most notable battles of the late civil war . news of Lees surrender was received. Every now and then, after the blockade was fairly organized, thisor that Federal admiral was wont to boast of the number of cap-tures he had made and his success in shutting np the port. Whilesome captures were made, there was never a time from first to lastthat any port was so carefully watched that blockade running wasnot carried on as a regular business. Stonewall Jackson and other Confederates captured from theFederal armies in the first two years of the war enough material tocompletely equip seventy-five thousand men, and up to the springof 1864 not a battle was fought in Virginia in which Federal 272 THE BLOCKADE EUNNEE8 OF THE WAE. ammunition was not used against Federals. Add to these facts, thefact that Europe furnished the Confederacy with its best ordnance,best muskets, best ammunition, and nearly all its uniforms, andthat, too, in spite of blockades, and we begin to see how it waspossible for the South to hold out in the manner she (i\t Jigljt ^)tUu SUm|l]is.
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