. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . ctim. On the 27th of Octo])er, 1864, the indomitable LieutenantW. B. Cushing, who had been constantly i)roposing wonderfuland almost impossible things, succeeded in getting eight milesup the Roanoke River in North Carolina and sinking, in anopen laimch, with a torpedo, the Confederate ram Albemarle. The gunboat Otsego ran afoul of a torpedo in the RoanokeRiver on December 9th and went to the bottom, and after thefall of the last fort, Fort Fisher, the Patapsco was simk inCharleston Harbor, January 15, 1865, and officers and crewwer
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . ctim. On the 27th of Octo])er, 1864, the indomitable LieutenantW. B. Cushing, who had been constantly i)roposing wonderfuland almost impossible things, succeeded in getting eight milesup the Roanoke River in North Carolina and sinking, in anopen laimch, with a torpedo, the Confederate ram Albemarle. The gunboat Otsego ran afoul of a torpedo in the RoanokeRiver on December 9th and went to the bottom, and after thefall of the last fort, Fort Fisher, the Patapsco was simk inCharleston Harbor, January 15, 1865, and officers and crewwere lost to the number of sixty. Still later in the Avar, in April,the monitors JMiltvaiikee and Osage suffered a like fate. TheyAvere in Admiral Thatchers fleet that Avas assisting (TcneralsCanby and Steele in the capture of JNIobile. After the forts hadbeen taken by the army, the Avar-ship advanced up the torjiedo-filled channel. A tin-clad, a Avooden gunboat, and several tugsAvere also bloAvn uj) before the ships anchored oft the city. XI THE SEA LIFE OF 61. A POWDER-MONKEY ON A DEEP-SEA CRAFT This smart little monkey is a sailor, every inch. In the old navy, the powder, beforethe days of fixed ammunitions, was brought up in canvas bags or powder buckets, andduring an action these brave little fellows were constantly on the run from their divisions tothe magazine. Under the break of the poop-deck behind the little lad are to be seen the cut-lasses that every sailor wore in the old days and that have now disappeared from the service.
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