. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . COPVRtGHT, 1911. PATHIOT PUB. CO. AQUIA CREEK WHERE THE FIRST SHOTS WERE FHIED J{Y THE NAVY Tlie im|)ortance of Af(uia Creek Landing, on the Potomac, to the naw grew steadily as the advance offenyiveHue which the Confederates had seized upon at the outbreak of the war l)egan to be puslied back into Vir-ginia. As a strategic position the Httle landing was the .scene of many stirring events during the ebb andflow of tlie military operations. The navy, in cooperating, ca
. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . COPVRtGHT, 1911. PATHIOT PUB. CO. AQUIA CREEK WHERE THE FIRST SHOTS WERE FHIED J{Y THE NAVY Tlie im|)ortance of Af(uia Creek Landing, on the Potomac, to the naw grew steadily as the advance offenyiveHue which the Confederates had seized upon at the outbreak of the war l)egan to be puslied back into Vir-ginia. As a strategic position the Httle landing was the .scene of many stirring events during the ebb andflow of tlie military operations. The navy, in cooperating, came to know it as a point of supply. Longbefore February, 18C3, when these pictures were taken, the Potomac flotilla had had its full of the abundanceof toil by night and day in the arduous and perilous task of patrolling the great river. Both l)anks in 1801were lined with hostile non-comliatants; goofls were smuggled across constantly by IMaryland .symj)athizersto their fighting friends in Virginia. Federal merchant-vessels were captured in attempting to get up theriver to The suppression of all this fell to
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