. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . Along tl|0 BlxavtB Chesapeake Bay, described in another chapter, and which werebetween small naval forces and land batteries, no regular vesselof the United States navy had discharged a gun at a floatingfoe until on July 28, 1861, the Confederate privateer Petrel,formerly the United States revenue cvitter Aiken, was sunk bythe sailing frigate St. Lawrence after receiving two shots broad-side. Out of her crew of forty, thirty-six were rescued by theSt. Latcrences boats. To the Federal navy belongs the honor of achieving thefirst sig
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . Along tl|0 BlxavtB Chesapeake Bay, described in another chapter, and which werebetween small naval forces and land batteries, no regular vesselof the United States navy had discharged a gun at a floatingfoe until on July 28, 1861, the Confederate privateer Petrel,formerly the United States revenue cvitter Aiken, was sunk bythe sailing frigate St. Lawrence after receiving two shots broad-side. Out of her crew of forty, thirty-six were rescued by theSt. Latcrences boats. To the Federal navy belongs the honor of achieving thefirst signal success along the coast, in the bombardment andcapture of Forts Hatteras and Clark at Hatteras Inlet, on the28th and 29th of August, 1861. From Hatteras Inlet offensiveoperations could be carried on b)^ means of light-draft vesselsalong the entire coast of North Carolina. The inlet was thekey to Albemarle Sound, and Avas, besides, a good depot foroutfitting and coaling, and a refuge. o\\ing to its sheltered posi-tion, from the fierce winter storms that r
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