. The soldier in our Civil War : a pictorial history of the conflict, 1861-1865, illustrating the valor of the soldier as displayed on the battle-field, from sketches drawn by Forbes, Waud, Taylor, Beard, Becker, Lovie, Schell, Crane and numerous other eye-witnesses to the strife . T IE «T1A«B BTBAM-nlm. OAtTTBEII BY nEWKKAl BUYijffl B OUU&BI1 KEAB TRf. HKLAT ROFSF. MW. ts THE SOLDIER IN OtTR CIVIL THE U. S. NAVAL ACADEMYAT August 7th, 1815, George Bancroft, Secretary of the Navy uudeiPresident Polk, issned orders for theestablishment of a Naval School, midinstmeted Commande
. The soldier in our Civil War : a pictorial history of the conflict, 1861-1865, illustrating the valor of the soldier as displayed on the battle-field, from sketches drawn by Forbes, Waud, Taylor, Beard, Becker, Lovie, Schell, Crane and numerous other eye-witnesses to the strife . T IE «T1A«B BTBAM-nlm. OAtTTBEII BY nEWKKAl BUYijffl B OUU&BI1 KEAB TRf. HKLAT ROFSF. MW. ts THE SOLDIER IN OtTR CIVIL THE U. S. NAVAL ACADEMYAT August 7th, 1815, George Bancroft, Secretary of the Navy uudeiPresident Polk, issned orders for theestablishment of a Naval School, midinstmeted Commander Franklin Bu-chanan (who subsequently commandedthe Confederate ironclad Merrimao,and was afterward taken prisoner byAdmiral Farragut in Mobile Harbor)to open a naval school in Fort Severn,Annapolis Harbor, Maryland. October 10th, 18-iS, the school waiformally opened, and the object of thoenterprise, with course of instruction,was set forth as follows: To collectthe midshipmen, who, from time totime, are on shore, and give themoccupation during their stay on land ■in the study of mathematics, nauticalastronomy, theory of morals, inter-national law, gunnery, the use ofsteam, the Spanish and Freneli lan-guages, and other branches essentialin the present day to the accomplish-ment of a naval officer. There werepresent fifty-six midshipmen and eightinstructors. The buildings in the fortwere found s
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