. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . received large sums. If other vessels were in a certain radiusof distance or attached to the same station, they also had a sharein the money awarded by the prize-courts, and an escapingblockade-runner would remind one of a hare pursued by aheterogeneous j^ack of hounds^the swiftest to the fore, andthen the lumbering, unwieldy boats bringing up the rear. Of the fifty-one thousand men in the Federal Navy dur-ing the Civil War, not a third could have been called by themost elastic stretching of the term, sailors. A great majorityrated
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . received large sums. If other vessels were in a certain radiusof distance or attached to the same station, they also had a sharein the money awarded by the prize-courts, and an escapingblockade-runner would remind one of a hare pursued by aheterogeneous j^ack of hounds^the swiftest to the fore, andthen the lumbering, unwieldy boats bringing up the rear. Of the fifty-one thousand men in the Federal Navy dur-ing the Civil War, not a third could have been called by themost elastic stretching of the term, sailors. A great majorityrated as landsmen, were so in fact as well as name, and at leasttwelve or fifteen thousand of the men serving in the fleets alongthe coast and on the rivers had never set foot on a ship beforeenlisting. On the gunboats in the Mississippi and the converted non-descripts that did such good service along the shores, there wasvery little chance for putting into practice the strict rules thatgoverned life on the regular vessels. The men in some cases hadgreater comfor
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