. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . States Marine Corps shows the iinahty of tlie men wlio maiie upthat liighly important l)rancli of tlie service. The United States Marine Corps was estal>hshed by Act of Congress on July 11. 1T9S,as an addition to tlie present military establishment. On June 30,18;U, another Act for its better organization was passed. Themarines were early in the war. not only in minor Iugagements along the coast Incidental to the blockade, but in the first battle of BullRun, July 2
. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . States Marine Corps shows the iinahty of tlie men wlio maiie upthat liighly important l)rancli of tlie service. The United States Marine Corps was estal>hshed by Act of Congress on July 11. 1T9S,as an addition to tlie present military establishment. On June 30,18;U, another Act for its better organization was passed. Themarines were early in the war. not only in minor Iugagements along the coast Incidental to the blockade, but in the first battle of BullRun, July 21, 18til, where they cooperated with the regular military forces. The marines proved especially useful in the fighting alongthe Western rivers. When .\dmiral I). D. Porter took command of the Mississippi .squadron, he applied for a force of marines to becarried in suitable vessels accompanying the fleet of gunboats so that the forces could lie hinded at various points. It was necessaryto have trained soldiers at hand to pursue and annihilate these irrcsjjonsiblc raiders, who ])illaged on the property of non-combatants[6S1. OFFICER AND MEN OF THE U. S. MARINE CORPS on both sides. Tile Navy Department at the time could not furnish the marines that Porter wanted, but the War Department uniler-took to organize a marine brigade and also to furnish the necessary transports to carry them about. The command of this was givento Brigadier-General .\lfred Ellet. EUets marine brigade, numbering about 2,000 strong, first sailed up the Tennessee River in .\pril,1863, to join the flotilla of Lieutenant-Commander Fitch, which was trying to suppress marauding bands in that territory. OnApril 2,5th, the marine brigade was attacked at Duck River by 700 Confederates under Colonel Woodward, n-ho had mistaken theFederal vessels for transports. They were disagreeably surprised when the marines, landing promptly, discomfited them in a sharpengagement and pursued them for twelve miles inland. On Maj- 7
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