. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . e guns at his disposal, for the Jacksonhad gone up the river and the Louisiana was scarcely able tomove. The River Defense Fleet j^roved a failure, for, as Gen-eral Lovell has said, their total want of system, vigilance,and discii)line rendered them useless and heljjless. Farraguts instructions had been so minute that it seemedthat he had overlooked no j^ossibility in the Avay of he expected the most desperate resistance and well un-derstood what lay before him, is proved by the conclusion to hisgeneral orders for the
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . e guns at his disposal, for the Jacksonhad gone up the river and the Louisiana was scarcely able tomove. The River Defense Fleet j^roved a failure, for, as Gen-eral Lovell has said, their total want of system, vigilance,and discii)line rendered them useless and heljjless. Farraguts instructions had been so minute that it seemedthat he had overlooked no j^ossibility in the Avay of he expected the most desperate resistance and well un-derstood what lay before him, is proved by the conclusion to hisgeneral orders for the preparation of the individual ships: I wish 3ou to understand that tlie day is at hand wlicn you willbo called upon to meet the enemy in the worst form for our must be prepared to execute all those duties to which you have beenso long trained in the navy, without having the opportunity of practis-ing. I expect every vessels crew to be well exercised at their guns,because it is required by the regulations of the service, and it is usually 192]. REVIEA OF KEVIEWS CO- SAVED FROM AN UNTIMELY END—THE SCIOTA This scene on tlie vessels deck was photographed shortly after she liad been raised after being snnk by atorpedo in ^Mobile Bay. Two days after the Federal flag was raised over the courthonse in ^Mobile, theSciota, while hurrying across the bay, ran into one of these hidden engines of destruction. A terrificexplosion followed and the Sciota sank ininiediately in twelve feet of water. Four of her men were killedand six wounded and the vessel was badly damaged. This was on April 14, The navy never gives u];one of its vessels as a total loss till everything has been doiie to prove that to be the case; by July 7th theSciota had been raised, repaired, and sent around to Pensacola for her armament, with orders to proceedto New York and go into dry-dock. In the picture the man leaning against the bulwark, with one hand onhis coat and the other in his trousers po
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