A history of the United States for schools . roops began to ar-rive. On the next day, after six hours of desperate fight-ing, the Confederates were obliged to retreat. Someweeks afterward they lost Corinth, and thus the centreof their second line of defence was broken. The navy of the United States played a great part inputting down the Confederacy. Many persons had be-lieved it would be impossible to make an effective block-ade of the entire coast, from Chesapeake Bay to theRio Grande. Yet this was done. Of regular warshipsthere were not nearly enough, but the government madeThe all sorts of
A history of the United States for schools . roops began to ar-rive. On the next day, after six hours of desperate fight-ing, the Confederates were obliged to retreat. Someweeks afterward they lost Corinth, and thus the centreof their second line of defence was broken. The navy of the United States played a great part inputting down the Confederacy. Many persons had be-lieved it would be impossible to make an effective block-ade of the entire coast, from Chesapeake Bay to theRio Grande. Yet this was done. Of regular warshipsthere were not nearly enough, but the government madeThe all sorts of craft useful, — merchant ships, blockade. stcam-boats, even Brooklyn ferry-boats, some-times partially armored. Almost anything that could §143- SLAVERY AND SECESSION. 391 float and carry guns was found serviceable, at least tem-porarily. During 1861 the forts at Hatteras Inlet werecaptured, and also Port Royal, in South Carolina, andsundry small islands along the coast. Such placesserved as points of supply for Union fleets, and also as. ADMIRAL lARRAGUT. lairs from which to pounce upon blockade-runners, or toassail places on the coast. In April, 1862, soon after the battle of Shiloh, theFederal fleet, under Farragut and Porter, performed oneof the most memorable exploits in naval history, when itran past the forts at the mouth of the Mississippi, de-feated the Confederate fleet, captured the city of NewOrleans, and got control of the river nearly The cap-up to Vicksburg. At the same time, the river New°^fleet, aided by a small land force under General Orleans. / 392 THE FEDERAL UNION. Cir. XV.
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