. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . FROM THE OLD NAVY TO THE NEW THE SLOOP-OF-WAR PENSACOLA, FIRST IN LINE WITH FARRAGUT The Pensacola was the type of United States fighting-ship that marks the transition from the old navyto the new, consummated by the Civil War. Steam had superseded sail, armor ])late was still to could never get used to it, contending that in old wooden ships like the Hartford a shot wouldpass clean through both sides, doing less damage than when penetrating an ironclad. The Pensacolaformed a splendid type of the steam sloop-of-war, o
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . FROM THE OLD NAVY TO THE NEW THE SLOOP-OF-WAR PENSACOLA, FIRST IN LINE WITH FARRAGUT The Pensacola was the type of United States fighting-ship that marks the transition from the old navyto the new, consummated by the Civil War. Steam had superseded sail, armor ])late was still to could never get used to it, contending that in old wooden ships like the Hartford a shot wouldpass clean through both sides, doing less damage than when penetrating an ironclad. The Pensacolaformed a splendid type of the steam sloop-of-war, of which the Hartford, Farraguts famous flagship,was the latest addition to the navy at the outbreak of the war. When Farragut fought his way pastthe forts below New Orleans, the Pensacola (after the grounding of the Cayuga) was first in captain, Henry W. Morris, deliberately slowed up and stopped frequently opposite the forts, as didthe Mississippi, so that their powerful batteries might take efl^ect while the smaller vessels got by. in firocess of c
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