Our navy in time of war (1861-1898) . ered ten. One of thehumorous things about the fight had to do with theUnadilla, one of the Northern war ships. Her ma-chinery got out of order and the engineers could notstop her. She signaled to the other vessels to move outof the way, and Admiral Ammen, in writing about itafterward, said it reminded him of the droll song ofthe man with the cork leg that would not let himtarry. This fight, like that at Fort Hatteras, was a mostimportant victory for the North, and it was won muchin the same way, by keeping the ships in motion whilethey were attacking the f
Our navy in time of war (1861-1898) . ered ten. One of thehumorous things about the fight had to do with theUnadilla, one of the Northern war ships. Her ma-chinery got out of order and the engineers could notstop her. She signaled to the other vessels to move outof the way, and Admiral Ammen, in writing about itafterward, said it reminded him of the droll song ofthe man with the cork leg that would not let himtarry. This fight, like that at Fort Hatteras, was a mostimportant victory for the North, and it was won muchin the same way, by keeping the ships in motion whilethey were attacking the forts. But the hardest partof the struggle along those dreary and lonely shoresof the Atlantic was yet to come. It was necessaryin all sorts of w^eather to go up the hundreds of baysand rivers, through swamps and marshes, in order todestroy numerous forts and earthworks, and to cutoff that part of the South from receiving supplies bythe ocean or from recapturing the forts that weretaken. More than a year was occupied in various tt-inn. f
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