. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . the Federal navy with fighting-vessels that would raise the blockade, but they could not build boatsfast enough, and almost as soon as they were finished they were captured or destroyed in one bold attempt after anotherto contend with the superior numbers that opposed them. Once at Mobile and again at Charleston, after a naval vic-tory the Confederates proclaimed the blockade raised, only to find that in a few days the investing fleet had beendoubled in strength. Mean
. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . the Federal navy with fighting-vessels that would raise the blockade, but they could not build boatsfast enough, and almost as soon as they were finished they were captured or destroyed in one bold attempt after anotherto contend with the superior numbers that opposed them. Once at Mobile and again at Charleston, after a naval vic-tory the Confederates proclaimed the blockade raised, only to find that in a few days the investing fleet had beendoubled in strength. Meanwhile the blockade-runners continued to ply between Nassau, Bermuda, and other con-venient depots and the ports of the Confederacy. Charleston, S. C, and Wilmington, N. C, the two most closelyguarded ports, continued to be made by these greyhounds of the sea until the Federal land forces at last compassedthe evacuation of the towns. Enormous as was the quantity of the merchandise and munitions of war that got bythe blockade, it was the work of the Federal navy that first began to curtail the traffic, and finally ended CONFEDERATES IN THE NEWLY-CAPTURED PENSACOLA FORT—1861 FiJl of enthusiasm and military spirit, but suspecting little what trials lay before them, the Confederatevolunteers pictured here are drilling at one of the forts that had been abandoned by the Federal Govern-ment, even before the momentous shot was fired at Sumter. Fort Pickens, through the forethought of Com-mander Henry Walke, who disobeyed his orders most brilliantly and successfully, had been saved to theFederal Government. The other batteries and forts at Pensacola, however, had been handed o\-er to theConfederacy, and here we see the men in gray, early in 01, taking advantage of the gift. Note the newuniforms, the soldierly and well-fed appearance of the uien, the stores of ammunition for the great guns. 1161
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