. Bill Nye's history of the United States. thousand miles of hostile coast with one vesselknow full well what it is to be busy. The entirenavy consisted of forty-two ships, and some ofthese were not seaworthy. Some of them wereso pervious that their guns had to be tied on tokeep them from leaking through the cracks of thevessel. Hatteras Inlet was captured, and CommodoreDupont, aided by General Thomas W. Sherman,captured Port Royal Entrance and Tybee Royal became the depot for the fleet. It was now decided at the South to send and Slidell to England, partly for changeo
. Bill Nye's history of the United States. thousand miles of hostile coast with one vesselknow full well what it is to be busy. The entirenavy consisted of forty-two ships, and some ofthese were not seaworthy. Some of them wereso pervious that their guns had to be tied on tokeep them from leaking through the cracks of thevessel. Hatteras Inlet was captured, and CommodoreDupont, aided by General Thomas W. Sherman,captured Port Royal Entrance and Tybee Royal became the depot for the fleet. It was now decided at the South to send and Slidell to England, partly for changeof scene and rest, and partly to make a friendlycall on Queen V^ictoria and invite her to come andspend the season at Asheville, North Carolina. Itwas also hoped that she would give a few readingsfrom her own works at the South, while her retinue BULL RUN AND OTHER BATTLES. !55 could go to the front and have fun with theYankee .if so disposed, The£ ; gentlemen, wearing their nice new broad-cloth clothes, and with a court suit and suitable. HOPED SHE WOULD GIVE A FEW READINGS FROM HER OWN WORKS. night-wear to use in case they should be pressedto stop a week or two at the castle, got to Havanasafely, and took passage on the British ship Trent;but Captain Wilkes, of the United States steamerSan Jacinto, took them off the Trent, just as had drawn and fortunately filled a hand 256 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. with which he hoped to pay a part of the war-debtof the South and get a new overcoat in , however, the United States disavowed thisact of Captain Wilkes, and said it was only a bitof pleasantry on his part. The first year of the war had taught both sidesa few truths, and especially that the war did notin any essential features resemble a straw-ride tocamp-meeting and return. The South had alsodiscovered that the Yankee peddlers could not becaptured with fly-paper, and that although war wasnot their regular job they were willing to learn howit was done. In
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