. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . Bay. of August, 1864. \Vhen Gustavus V. Fox, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, proposedthe capture of New Orleans from the southward he was regarded as utterly foolhardy. .\ll that was needed, however, to make Fo.\splan successful was the man with spirit enough to undertake it and judgment sufficient to carry it out. Here on the deck of the fine newsloop-of-war that had been assigned to him as flagship, stands the man who had just accomplished a greater feat that made
. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . Bay. of August, 1864. \Vhen Gustavus V. Fox, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, proposedthe capture of New Orleans from the southward he was regarded as utterly foolhardy. .\ll that was needed, however, to make Fo.\splan successful was the man with spirit enough to undertake it and judgment sufficient to carry it out. Here on the deck of the fine newsloop-of-war that had been assigned to him as flagship, stands the man who had just accomplished a greater feat that made him a worldfigure as famous as Nelson. The Confederacy had found its great general among its own people, but the great admiral of the war,although of Southern birth, had refused to fight against the flag for which, as a boy in the War of 1812, he had seen men die. Fullof the fighting spirit of the old navy, he was able to achieve the first great victory that gave new hope to the Federal Drayton was also a Southerner, a South Carolinian, whose brothers and uncles were fighting for the South.[e—16] _jt, ^1^3^?=^ *(^*#it
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