Young folks' history of the United States . victory, capturing fifty pieces of artillery, andmany prisoners. This event has been made the subjectof a ballad, called Sheridans Ride, by At sca, thc Confederate privateers had for someAlabama, time bccu vcry destructive to American merchant-vessels. The Shenandoah had destroyed thirty-fourwhale-ships in the arctic seas; and the Alabamahad taken sixty-five vessels. American ships hadalmost been driven from the ocean, or had been trans-ferred to British ownership for protection. The Con-federate privateers had escaped meeting
Young folks' history of the United States . victory, capturing fifty pieces of artillery, andmany prisoners. This event has been made the subjectof a ballad, called Sheridans Ride, by At sca, thc Confederate privateers had for someAlabama, time bccu vcry destructive to American merchant-vessels. The Shenandoah had destroyed thirty-fourwhale-ships in the arctic seas; and the Alabamahad taken sixty-five vessels. American ships hadalmost been driven from the ocean, or had been trans-ferred to British ownership for protection. The Con-federate privateers had escaped meeting United Statesmen-of-war, until the Alabama was attacked by the Kearsarge, Captain Winslow, off the coast of Cher- NAVAL ACTIONS. bourg, France, June 19, 1864. During the action, thetwo vessels were steaming at the rate of seven milesan hour, and swinging round one another in circles, soas to bring their broadsides to bear. After they haddescribed seven of these circles, and had come withina quarter of a mile of one another, the Alabama 313. SHERIDAN S RIDE. was sunk; Captain Semmes and his men being pickedup by an English yacht. Another brilliant naval action during this year was capture oithat won in Mobile Bay by Admiral Farragut, Aug. 5. ^°^®-The bay was a great resort for blockade-runners: it wasdefended by two forts, by torpedoes set in the narrowchannel, and by an iron-plated ram of great power. 314 YOUNG FOLKS UNITED STATES. — the Tennessee. Farragut had to meet these ob-stacles with wooden ships, aided by a few monitors,one of which was soon struck by a torpedo, and wentdown with her crew. Farragut had provided falsebows of iron with which his wooden ships might chargethe ram; and this dangerous vessel was at length dis-abled, and surrendered with the forts. Destruc-tion of theAlbemarle.
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