. Original photographs taken on the battlefields during the Civil War of the United States . PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN WHILE GOVERNMENT PROVI5ION TRAINS WERE ENTERING PETERSBURG AFTER EVACUATION IN 1865. THE largest fleet that had everbeen assembled under onecommand in the history ofthe American Navy concen-trated before Fort Fisher, North Car-olina, late in 1864. It included nearlysixty vessels, of which five were iron-clads, and the three largest UnitedStates steam frigates, Minnesota,Colorado and Wabash, and wasaccompanied by one of the war cam-eras. The total number of guns andhowitzers of the flee
. Original photographs taken on the battlefields during the Civil War of the United States . PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN WHILE GOVERNMENT PROVI5ION TRAINS WERE ENTERING PETERSBURG AFTER EVACUATION IN 1865. THE largest fleet that had everbeen assembled under onecommand in the history ofthe American Navy concen-trated before Fort Fisher, North Car-olina, late in 1864. It included nearlysixty vessels, of which five were iron-clads, and the three largest UnitedStates steam frigates, Minnesota,Colorado and Wabash, and wasaccompanied by one of the war cam-eras. The total number of guns andhowitzers of the fleet were oversix hundred, and the weight of pro-jectiles at a single discharge of all theguns, both broadsides, was overtwenty-two tons. The Atlantic andGulf coast were almost entirely in theGovernment possession and the Navywas prepared to strike its decisiveblow. Fort Fisher was now the mostimportant Confederate naval first attack took place in the nightof December twenty-third, when apowder-boat was exploded under thetowering walls of the old fort. Itwas believed that it was leveled to theground, but in the morning the grimfort stood absolutely uninjured withits flag floati
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