. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . ion to Fort Warren, where, although I was denied the freedomenjoyed by the other prisoners, I was treated with much consideration byColonel Justin Dimick, who made fast friends of every prisoner under hischarge for his kindness to them. The war has long been over with me, and the most uncompromising onboth sides must acknowledge the creation of a new, richer, happier, and bet-ter South and mightier common country as the result of the unhappy strife. My old antagonists have ever be
. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . ion to Fort Warren, where, although I was denied the freedomenjoyed by the other prisoners, I was treated with much consideration byColonel Justin Dimick, who made fast friends of every prisoner under hischarge for his kindness to them. The war has long been over with me, and the most uncompromising onboth sides must acknowledge the creation of a new, richer, happier, and bet-ter South and mightier common country as the result of the unhappy strife. My old antagonists have ever been kind to me, and to many others of theirold ante-bellum companions and friends. In 1867 a Union man gave me thecommand of a vessel he owned. In 1868 a Boston company offered me theposition of first mate of one of their new iron steamships. In 1869 thecolonel of a New York regiment and a rear-admiral of the United StatesNavy secured my appointment as Colonel of Coast Defenses in the EgyptianArmy; and I am now holding positions for which I was recommended by anofficer whose ship fought mine below New ENTRANCE TO FORT ST. PHILIP. FROM A PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN IN 1884, THE RAM MANASSAS AT THE PASSAGE OP THE NEW ORLEANS FORTS. BY A. F. WARLEY, CAPTAIN, C. S. N. JUST after the war I thought bygones had bet-ter be bygones and the stirring up of bittermemories was a thing to be avoided; now that somany years have passed, it seems to me almostimpossible for one who was observant, and hadgood opportunities to observe, to tell all he be-lieved he witnessed without in some way reflect-ing upon one or another of those in position whohave gone to their rest and are no longer able tomeet criticism. But from the day of the veracious historian Pol-lard to the present one of Captain Kennon, nomention has been made of the vessel under mycommand on the night Admiral Farragut passedthe Forts, except in slighting, sneering, or un-truthful statements. There are only a few of those who were with
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