. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . THE SA15INK, THE FIRST BLOCKADER IN J HE SOUTH ATLANTIC The towering masts of this fine sailing frigate arrived in Pensacola Harbor on April 12, 1861, the day Fort Sumter was fired the Brooklyn, she landed re enforcements at Fort Pickens. On May 13th, Captain H. A. Adams of the Sabine issuednotice of the blockade at Pensacola, the first Atlantic port to be thus closed. The Sabine, like her prototypes, the United Statesand the Constitution, mounted 44 guns. She sailed on the expedition to Paraguay in 1858-9, and became one
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . THE SA15INK, THE FIRST BLOCKADER IN J HE SOUTH ATLANTIC The towering masts of this fine sailing frigate arrived in Pensacola Harbor on April 12, 1861, the day Fort Sumter was fired the Brooklyn, she landed re enforcements at Fort Pickens. On May 13th, Captain H. A. Adams of the Sabine issuednotice of the blockade at Pensacola, the first Atlantic port to be thus closed. The Sabine, like her prototypes, the United Statesand the Constitution, mounted 44 guns. She sailed on the expedition to Paraguay in 1858-9, and became one of the first ships ofthe old navy to see active service in the Civil War. She served in Admiral Du Fonts squadron on the expedition to Port Royal inNovember, 1861. Her commander on that expedition was Captain Cadwalader Ringgold. It was largely due to the heroic efl^orts ofhis officers and crew that marines were saved from drowning when the transport Governor foundered on the 3d, In February,1862, when the new-fangled Monitor, the latest Yankee notion
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