. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . COPYRIGHT, 1911, REVIEW OF REVIEW THE PIVOT-GUN OF THE WISSAHICKON AND ITS CREW Confederate commerce-destroyers. She was m the fleet of Admiral Farragut at New Orleans and ran the batteries at in 1862 she was in Carolina waters and in January, 1863, participated in the first attacks on Fort McAllister. She was inAdmiral Dahlgrens fleet during the stirring operations in Charleston harbor and returned to South Carolina waters toward the closeof 1864, where she captured numerous prizes, enriching her officers and crew.
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . COPYRIGHT, 1911, REVIEW OF REVIEW THE PIVOT-GUN OF THE WISSAHICKON AND ITS CREW Confederate commerce-destroyers. She was m the fleet of Admiral Farragut at New Orleans and ran the batteries at in 1862 she was in Carolina waters and in January, 1863, participated in the first attacks on Fort McAllister. She was inAdmiral Dahlgrens fleet during the stirring operations in Charleston harbor and returned to South Carolina waters toward the closeof 1864, where she captured numerous prizes, enriching her officers and crew. The sailors on few of the Federal vessels had a morevaried and adventurous experience of the war than did those of the Wissahickon, and the faces in the picture, both old and young,are those of men ready at any and all times for a fight or a frolic on their beloved THE OLD NAVY—THREE VETERANS OF THE LINE In the center of this war-time photograph rides the famous frigate Constitution. She was one of the fourfighting-ships the construction of which, under Act of Congress of March 27, 1794, marked the birth of anadequate navy to protect the commerce of the young rej^ubhc. She was the third to be launched, October21, 1797, at Boston. Her exploits in the harbor of Tripoli in 1804 and her great fight with the Guerriere soon made her name a household word to all Americans. Full of years and honors in 1861, she was lyingat Annapolis as a training-ship at the outbreak of the War of the Rebellion, and was in great danger offalling into the hands of the Confederates. General Benjamin F. Butler, who was in the vicinity with theEighth Massachusetts Regiment, sent a detachment that guarded the old ship till she was towed to New-port, where she arrived INIay 9th under Lieutenant-Commander G. W. Rodgers, with officers and midship-men from the Military Academy
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