. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . THE GUNBOAT MASSASOIT advance of Federals under General Butkr. The Canonicus participated in the Fort Fisher expedition, and to her belongsthe honor of capturing the Brit-ish blockade-runner Deer offCharleston, February 18, the center appears the gun-boat Massasoit. In the lastaction that took place with theC flufederate flotilla on the James,at Trents Reach, January 24,1865, it was the Massasoitthat received the only damagefrom the gims of the hostile ves-sels and the battery at Hewlettshouse. In the two-hour actionafter t
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . THE GUNBOAT MASSASOIT advance of Federals under General Butkr. The Canonicus participated in the Fort Fisher expedition, and to her belongsthe honor of capturing the Brit-ish blockade-runner Deer offCharleston, February 18, the center appears the gun-boat Massasoit. In the lastaction that took place with theC flufederate flotilla on the James,at Trents Reach, January 24,1865, it was the Massasoitthat received the only damagefrom the gims of the hostile ves-sels and the battery at Hewlettshouse. In the two-hour actionafter the return of the Onon-daga up-stream, five men onthe Massasoit were was one of the third-classdouble-ender armored vessels andmounted ten guns. During thisaction she was commanded byLieutenant G. W. SumniT, whodisplayed the utmost coolness andbraverv in handling his THE MONITOR CANONICUS ALONG THE SHORES THE movements of the naval forces on the Atlantic coastsouth of Cape Charles and Cape Henry, and along theborders of the Gulf States, were primarily to forward the main-tenance of a strict blockade, and secondh^, to act in coopera-tion with the various land expeditions in the establishment ofnaval bases and the convoying of troops intended for inlandservice. The armed ships of the navy lent their mighty aid inthe reduction of the formidable forts that commanded the chiefjjorts of entry. Besides the universal adoption of armor and the recurrenceto the ram of ancient days, there were introduced three im-portant principles. They were not new—the minds of our fore-fathers had roughly imagined them—but they were for thefirst time put successfully into practice. The first was therevolving turret; the second, the torpedo, in both its forms,offensive and defensive, and the third was the submergible and actually the submarine, the diving ship of to-da
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