. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . JACK-TARS OF THE OLD NAVY A glance at these seasoned men ranged alongside the 9-incli pivot-gun of the sloop-of-war Wissahickon gives us an idea of the appear-ance of the men of the old navy. The face of the gun-captain standing near the breach of his gun shows that he is a sailor throughand through. There are very few landsmen pictured here. The old Jack-tar, standing fourth in the right row, who has turned his capinto a ditty bag, harks back to the fighting days when steam had hardly been thought of. He is a survivor of the War o
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . JACK-TARS OF THE OLD NAVY A glance at these seasoned men ranged alongside the 9-incli pivot-gun of the sloop-of-war Wissahickon gives us an idea of the appear-ance of the men of the old navy. The face of the gun-captain standing near the breach of his gun shows that he is a sailor throughand through. There are very few landsmen pictured here. The old Jack-tar, standing fourth in the right row, who has turned his capinto a ditty bag, harks back to the fighting days when steam had hardly been thought of. He is a survivor of the War of 1812, andremembers the days of Bainbridge, of Decatur, Stewart, and Biddle. Even the younger men have no look of the volunteer aboutthem; they are deep-sea sailors, every one. The Wissahickon was one of the Federal cruisers that had put out in search of the142] J. COPYRIGHT, 1911, REVIEW OF REVIEW THE PIVOT-GUN OF THE WISSAHICKON AND ITS CREW Confederate commerce-destroyers. She was m the fleet of Admiral Farragut at New Orleans and ran the batteries at in 1862 she was in Carolina waters and in January, 1863, participated in the first attacks on Fort McAllister. She was inAdmiral Dahlgrens fleet during the stirring operations in Charleston harbor and returned to South Carolina waters toward the closeof 1864, where she captured numerous prizes, enriching her officers and crew. The sailors on few of the Federal vessels had a morevaried and adventurous experience of the war than did those of the Wissahickon, and the faces in the picture, both old and young,are those of men ready at any and all times for a fight or a frolic on their beloved ship.
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