. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . COALING FARRAGUTS FLEET AFTER NEW ORLEANS Coaling Farraguts Fleet at Baton Rouge. If a ship without a captain is like a man without a soul,as runs an old naval saying, a vessel dependent upon steam power with empty bunkers is as a man deprivedof heart-blood, nerves, or muscles; and a few days after New Orleans, Farraguts vessels faced a serious A. T. Mahan has summed it up in the following words: ... The maintenance of the coal supplyfor a large squadro
. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . COALING FARRAGUTS FLEET AFTER NEW ORLEANS Coaling Farraguts Fleet at Baton Rouge. If a ship without a captain is like a man without a soul,as runs an old naval saying, a vessel dependent upon steam power with empty bunkers is as a man deprivedof heart-blood, nerves, or muscles; and a few days after New Orleans, Farraguts vessels faced a serious A. T. Mahan has summed it up in the following words: ... The maintenance of the coal supplyfor a large squadron, five hundred miles up a crooked river in a hostile country, was in itself no small anxiety,involving as it did carriage of the coal against the current, the provision of convoys to protect the supplyvessels against guerillas, and the employment of pilots, few of whom were to be found, as they naturallyfavored the enemy, and had gone away. The river was drawing near the time of lowest water, and theflag-ship herself got aground under very critical circumstances, having had to take out her coal and shot,and had even begu
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