. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . ag-Officer Davis, the fleet of light-draft ves-sels, known as tin-clads, was organized. For some time the gunboats and tin-clads operatingin conjunction with the Western armies had been under thesupervision of the War Department, and separate from thenavy entirely. But very soon this was to be changed, and theentire JNIississippi forces and those engaged in the Westernand Southern waters came under the jurisdiction of the NavyDepartment. Officers were detached to command of thesenondescripts and tin-clads that rendered such gallant
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . ag-Officer Davis, the fleet of light-draft ves-sels, known as tin-clads, was organized. For some time the gunboats and tin-clads operatingin conjunction with the Western armies had been under thesupervision of the War Department, and separate from thenavy entirely. But very soon this was to be changed, and theentire JNIississippi forces and those engaged in the Westernand Southern waters came under the jurisdiction of the NavyDepartment. Officers were detached to command of thesenondescripts and tin-clads that rendered such gallant serv-ice; experienced gunners and bodies of marines were sent outto lend discipline and cohesion to the land sailors who, up tothis time, had been carrying on the river warfare. The block-ade called for more and more energy along the Atlantic coast;very early the runners began to try the dangerous game ofeluding the watching cordon. Providing these vessels with officers and crews taxed theNavy Department to a great extent. There were not enough 1581 /©>. Here on the Pamunkey River, her ports dropped and exposing her gaping gun-muzzles, lies one of the vessels hastil\converted into gunboats to serve the early needs of the navy along the shores and rivers of the Atlantic coast. Mannedby brave men who rendered yeoman service for the Federal cause, many of these small craft sank into oblivion, over-shadowed by the achievements of the great monitors and ironclads which were eventually provided by the NavyDepartment for service along the shore. Some of the converted ferryboats, when their term of charter was up,returned to their wonted peaceful occupation before hostilities ceased; others served till the end, and then, doffingtheir armor, returned to commercial life. Such vessels were early useful in the York and Pamunkey Rivers in aid-ing the military efforts to advance upon Richmond by way of the Peninsula. White House on the Pamunkey wastwice the base of the Federal army, and
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