. A history of the United States of America, its people, and its institutions. have yielded of itself on theclose of the war in the East. The War on the Coast.—While these events were takingplace on land, the fleet was not idle. The blockade hadbeen made so complete that few blockade-runners nowreached Confederate ports. During the war over fifteen gun-boats, which sent north the welcome news. After taking Savan-nah, Sherman wrote to Lincoln that he presented it to him as a Christ-mas gift, with one hundred and fifty guns and twenty-five thousandbales of cotton. THE FINAL CAMPAIGNS OF THE WAR.
. A history of the United States of America, its people, and its institutions. have yielded of itself on theclose of the war in the East. The War on the Coast.—While these events were takingplace on land, the fleet was not idle. The blockade hadbeen made so complete that few blockade-runners nowreached Confederate ports. During the war over fifteen gun-boats, which sent north the welcome news. After taking Savan-nah, Sherman wrote to Lincoln that he presented it to him as a Christ-mas gift, with one hundred and fifty guns and twenty-five thousandbales of cotton. THE FINAL CAMPAIGNS OF THE WAR. 401 hundred of these adventurous vessels were taken or de-stroyed. Since early m the war Charleston had been be-sieged, but it was so vigorously defended that every attemptto take it proved a failure until the coming of Shermansarmy in 1865. Farragut at Mobile.—On August 5, 1864, Admiral Far-ragut, with a fleet of wooden and iron-clad vessels, attackedthe defences of Mobile. These defences consisted of threeforts, a fleet of three gun-boats, and the great iron-clad ram. tn Bay. Tennessee. The fight was a severe one, but ended in thecapture of the ram and the dispersal or destruction of thegun-boats. The forts soon after surrendered. Port Fisher Taken.—Later in the year (December 24,25), Fort Fisher, which defended the harbor of Wilmington,North Carolina, was attacked by a combined land and navalforce, which failed to take it. On January 15, 1865, it was 402 THE CIVIL WAR. assailed by the same force and taken by assault. Thisended all blockade-running. Every port of the Confederacywas now closed. The Alabama.—Meanwhile, a number of Confederatecruisers—built in British ports and manned by Britishsailors, their officers only being from the South—had gonefar toward destroying American commerce. Hundreds ofvessels had been taken and burnt, or bonded for heavysums. The most notable of these cruisers was the Alabama,commanded by Captain Semmes, which captu
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