. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . tified this heavA out-lay. Its organization, as mighthave been expected, wa.«; seri-ously defective. In January,Lovell was apprehensive that fourteen Mississippi Rivercaptains and pilots will never agree aboiit auA-thing after they once getunder Avay. These fears were afterward realized. April 15th, Lovell wrote: The livrr pilots (Montsromerv aud Towiisend), who aio the head of the fleet, are men oflimited ideas, no system, .and no administrative capacity whatever. I very much fea
. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . tified this heavA out-lay. Its organization, as mighthave been expected, wa.«; seri-ously defective. In January,Lovell was apprehensive that fourteen Mississippi Rivercaptains and pilots will never agree aboiit auA-thing after they once getunder Avay. These fears were afterward realized. April 15th, Lovell wrote: The livrr pilots (Montsromerv aud Towiisend), who aio the head of the fleet, are men oflimited ideas, no system, .and no administrative capacity whatever. I very much fear, too. thattheir powers of execution will prove much less than has been anticipated,— iu short, uidess somecompetent person of education, system, and brains is put over each di\-ision of this fleet, it will,in my judgment, prove an utter faihire. No code of laws or penalties has been estabUshed. audit is difficult to decide how deserters from the fleet are to be tried aud punished. There is littleor no discipline or subordination — too much steamboat aud too little of the mau-of-war tobe very GDSTAVUS v. FOX. ASSISTANT SKCKETAUY. UNITEli NAVTFROM A PIIOTOGRMH. THE UNION AND CONFEDERATE NAVIES. 627
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