. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . loop-of-war Brookli/ii and the small steamer Wi/ainJotte, wereat Pensacola; two others, the gun-boats Mohaick and Crusader, were at XewYork; the Fairiirr, a secon sloops of. THE UNITED STATES THIOATE MEURIMAO BKli;AND AFTER CONVERSION INTO AN IRON-OLAll. THE UNION AND CONFEDERATE NAVIES. 615 the first or Harfford class, 4 large side-wheelers, and 8 sloops of the second orIroquois class. AH these were exceedingly valuable as the nucleus of a fleet, butfor the war which the Governme
. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . loop-of-war Brookli/ii and the small steamer Wi/ainJotte, wereat Pensacola; two others, the gun-boats Mohaick and Crusader, were at XewYork; the Fairiirr, a secon sloops of. THE UNITED STATES THIOATE MEURIMAO BKli;AND AFTER CONVERSION INTO AN IRON-OLAll. THE UNION AND CONFEDERATE NAVIES. 615 the first or Harfford class, 4 large side-wheelers, and 8 sloops of the second orIroquois class. AH these were exceedingly valuable as the nucleus of a fleet, butfor the war which the Government had now on hand they could be consideredas nothing more than this. Accoiding to the position which the Adminis-tration was very soon compelled to take, the struggle was one a outrance. In aforeign war the conflict usually springs from a collision of rights or of inter-ests, involving only a particular branch of the relations of the two contestants,and the question is ultimately settled by some form of compromise, as soonas financial or military exhaustion leads one party or the other to conclude thata protraction of the contest is not worth its while. In the ci\al war, however,no compromise was possible, and with the resolution shown by the Southernpeople, nothing short of com
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