. Abraham Lincoln; a history . KEAR-ADMIRAL ROANOKE ISLAND 241 organizing his great army, refusing to allow detach- chap. and postponing all movements, the PotomacRiver fell into a condition of quasi blockade fromrebel batteries hastily established at eligible points,and which, though from time to time shelled outand driven away, persistently reappeared to en-danger navigation. For several months, saysthe report of the Secretary of the Navy, the com-merce on this important avenue to the nationalcapital was almost entirely suspended, though atno time was the passage of
. Abraham Lincoln; a history . KEAR-ADMIRAL ROANOKE ISLAND 241 organizing his great army, refusing to allow detach- chap. and postponing all movements, the PotomacRiver fell into a condition of quasi blockade fromrebel batteries hastily established at eligible points,and which, though from time to time shelled outand driven away, persistently reappeared to en-danger navigation. For several months, saysthe report of the Secretary of the Navy, the com-merce on this important avenue to the nationalcapital was almost entirely suspended, though atno time was the passage of our armed naval vesselsprevented. General McClellan felt unwilling orunable to relieve this stress by a forward move-ment. Yet not entirely insensible to such a militarydisgrace almost at the tent-doors of the army, hetook refuge in a half-way measure suggested byGreneral Ambrose E. Burnside, his classmate andintimate friend, and recommended the formation ofa coast division with suitable vessels such asmi^ht be enlisted and collected from the varioussea-
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