Our navy in time of war (1861-1898) . ulf and Yicksburgwere still in possession of the South, and ])ractic-ally all that Farragut had accom])lished iu his bril-liant campaign on the lower ^lississi])])!, lasting fornearly a year, was to o])en the Iivcr as far as PortHudson. He had captured Xew Orleans, and hisvictory over the forts Inlow if had been com-plete, because ihvy had snn-cndcrcd a few daysafter Xew Orleans fell. Idic otlier contests might UP THE MLSSISSIPPI—FAPvRAGUT APPEARS. 1 be called drawn battles, but Farragut in going bythe batteries really won a victory in each case, be-cause
Our navy in time of war (1861-1898) . ulf and Yicksburgwere still in possession of the South, and ])ractic-ally all that Farragut had accom])lished iu his bril-liant campaign on the lower ^lississi])])!, lasting fornearly a year, was to o])en the Iivcr as far as PortHudson. He had captured Xew Orleans, and hisvictory over the forts Inlow if had been com-plete, because ihvy had snn-cndcrcd a few daysafter Xew Orleans fell. Idic otlier contests might UP THE MLSSISSIPPI—FAPvRAGUT APPEARS. 1 be called drawn battles, but Farragut in going bythe batteries really won a victory in each case, be-cause he made it possible for Porter, iii 1863, tofinish up the work that he began and conducted AUuLk ou Uraiid Gulf. CHAPTER V. DOWN THE MISSISSIPPI HELPING THE ARMY. Soon after the civil war began it was seen thatthe North wouhl have to construct a fleet of riverwar ships for use on the Mississippi and its manybranches, if it expected to defeat the South. Such afleet would prevent the South from invading theXorth, and would assist the army of the !Nortli in in-vading the South. It would also keep the Southernrivers open to a great extent, so that the South couldnot get sup})lies for its army from the western sideof the Mississippi River. Those river war ships hadto be of a kind never seen before. They had to beshallow and flat, so as to move on the rivers when theAvaters were low. They had to carry guns as large asthe guns that ocean-going war ships carried. Theyhad to be protected with a. crude kind of armor, be-cause the fighting they had to do was to be at shortrange. For these reasons the river war ships were curious-looking things. They were generally rectangular inshape,
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