. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . PART IIDOWN THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY NEW MADRID ISLAND No. 10 NEW ORLEANS. CAIRO IN 1862—ON THE EXTREME RIGHT IS THE CHURCH WHERE FLAG-OFFICER FOOTE PREACHED A SERMON AFTER THE FALL OF FORT HENRY—NEXT HE LED THE GUNBOATS AT ISLAND NO. 10. NEW MADRID AND ISLAND NO. 10 s^V IT has been truly said that without the American navy, in-significant as it was in the early sixties, the North couldhardly have succeeded in the great war. The blockade wasnecessary to success, and wit
. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . PART IIDOWN THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY NEW MADRID ISLAND No. 10 NEW ORLEANS. CAIRO IN 1862—ON THE EXTREME RIGHT IS THE CHURCH WHERE FLAG-OFFICER FOOTE PREACHED A SERMON AFTER THE FALL OF FORT HENRY—NEXT HE LED THE GUNBOATS AT ISLAND NO. 10. NEW MADRID AND ISLAND NO. 10 s^V IT has been truly said that without the American navy, in-significant as it was in the early sixties, the North couldhardly have succeeded in the great war. The blockade wasnecessary to success, and without the navy the blockade wouldhave been impossible. It may further be said that without thegunboats on the winding rivers of the middle West success inthat quarter Avould have been e(iually impossible. It was thesefloating fortresses that reduced Fort Ilem-y and that gaveindispensal)le aid at Fort Donelson. At Shiloh when at theclose of the first days conflict the Confederates made a wild,imjietuous dash on the Union camp, it was the two littleAvoodcn gunboats that aided in preserving the camp from cap-ture or complete demoralization. We have now to relate a series of ojjerations clown t
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