. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . 01)^ 53aiig m\i t\^t Mtitknht. Charleston Harbor would have been permanently in the handsof the Federal authorities. Equal folly, inefficiency, and, in cases, disloj^alty wereshown in the faihn-e to take steps to protect the great navy-yard at Norfolk and in the surrender of that at former could have been saved had the incoming admin-istration acted more jjromptly; the latter could, at any momentin the two months succeeding its surrender in January, havebeen reoccu2)ie{l. had there been a show of wisdom in govern-ment
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . 01)^ 53aiig m\i t\^t Mtitknht. Charleston Harbor would have been permanently in the handsof the Federal authorities. Equal folly, inefficiency, and, in cases, disloj^alty wereshown in the faihn-e to take steps to protect the great navy-yard at Norfolk and in the surrender of that at former could have been saved had the incoming admin-istration acted more jjromptly; the latter could, at any momentin the two months succeeding its surrender in January, havebeen reoccu2)ie{l. had there been a show of wisdom in govern-ment affairs. With the loss of these two great establishmentsAvent the loss of some thousands of cannon, which went to armthe Southern batteries. Had these untoward events not hap-l^ened, affairs would have assumed a very different phase; fora time, at least, war would have been deferred, and sobererthought might have had its weight. Whether it were better that the war should be fought,and the pick of the manhood of the South and much of thatof the North i)erish, need not l)e discussed; but t
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