. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . ^ the frequent chasing and occasional capture of])lockade-runners. The log-books of this adventurous fleet ofmarine speculators would make chapters as full of interest asany in naval history. But it would be interest of the kind onefinds in fiction. It was one series of deliberated, challenging dangers and hairbreadth escapes to freedom. Irofits almost ri2oi. BOLD BLOCKADERS—THE PAUL JONES This fast side-wheel steamer under Commander C. Steedman saw her first active service in the war in followingup the advantages gained by the Fed
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . ^ the frequent chasing and occasional capture of])lockade-runners. The log-books of this adventurous fleet ofmarine speculators would make chapters as full of interest asany in naval history. But it would be interest of the kind onefinds in fiction. It was one series of deliberated, challenging dangers and hairbreadth escapes to freedom. Irofits almost ri2oi. BOLD BLOCKADERS—THE PAUL JONES This fast side-wheel steamer under Commander C. Steedman saw her first active service in the war in followingup the advantages gained by the Federal navy at Port Royal. July 29, 1862, she led three other gunboats up theOgeechee River to the first attack upon Fort McAllister. The following October she led the expedition to Floridawhich captured the Confederate batteries on St. Johns Blufi^. The following year, under Commander A. C. Rhind,she was with the fleet of Rear-Admiral Dahlgren, which captured Fort Wagner on Morris Island in Charleston Har-bor, July 18th. Of her seven guns, two were 50-pounder rifles and one a 100-pounder, which made her a very efficientblockader. The trim little gunboat Marblehead (shown below), rating something over five hundred tons, wasactive throughout the war. In April, 1862, under the command of Lieutenant S. Nicholson, she was in theChesapeake aiding McClellan in his operations before Yorktown. In February, 1863, she join
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