. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . fiEVIEW OF REVIEWS CO. THE OUTLYING NAVY-YARD- These scenes show the activities thatsprang up around Hilton Head afterthe success of the Port Royal ex-pedition. The picture above is ofthe foundry shop erected by theFederals. Here hundreds of me-chanics were kept constantly em-ployed, repairing the iron workneeded aboard the gunboats anddoing work for which the ships other-wise would have had to go central picture shows the an-chor rack, where were kept all s
. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . fiEVIEW OF REVIEWS CO. THE OUTLYING NAVY-YARD- These scenes show the activities thatsprang up around Hilton Head afterthe success of the Port Royal ex-pedition. The picture above is ofthe foundry shop erected by theFederals. Here hundreds of me-chanics were kept constantly em-ployed, repairing the iron workneeded aboard the gunboats anddoing work for which the ships other-wise would have had to go central picture shows the an-chor rack, where were kept all sizesof anchors from the small ones usedfor mooring buoys to those of thelargest ships. In the early part ofthe war hundreds of anchors were -HILTON HEAD, 186*2. THE ANCHOR RACK lost to the navy by ships slippingtheir moorings to stand off-shore inbad weather. Later the employ-ment of long heavy deep-sea cablesobviated lliis necessity, enablingships to ride out gales. Not a singlevessel of the regular navy founderedor was wrecked during the wholewar. One of the 6rst things done bythe Federal authorities after gaininga foothohl at Hilton Head was toreijlace all buoys and lights. In thelower picture one of the monitors isconvoying the new lightship that wassent down from the North to replacethe one remo\ed, at the outbreakof licistilitiis. by till- (^mfcderates. \ ii ■ \.^ r . J ,i i&-m wmt^ IL«-«WJ«»* E ipgHUP ^^ COPYRIGHT, 1911, REVIEW OF REVIEWS CO. MONITOR AT PORT ROYAL CONVOYING LIGHTSHIP
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