The Civil War through the camera : hundreds of vivid photographs actually taken in Civil War times, together with Elson's new history . / AN E:\IERGENCY GUNBOAT FROM THE NEW YORK FERRY SERVICE This craft, the Commodore Perry, was an old New York ferryboat purchased and hastily pressed intoservice by the Federal navy to help solve the problem of patrollingthe three thousand miles of coast, alongwhich the blockade must be made effective. In order to penetrate the intricate inlets and rivers, light-draft fighting-vessels were required, and the most immediate means of securing these was to purchas
The Civil War through the camera : hundreds of vivid photographs actually taken in Civil War times, together with Elson's new history . / AN E:\IERGENCY GUNBOAT FROM THE NEW YORK FERRY SERVICE This craft, the Commodore Perry, was an old New York ferryboat purchased and hastily pressed intoservice by the Federal navy to help solve the problem of patrollingthe three thousand miles of coast, alongwhich the blockade must be made effective. In order to penetrate the intricate inlets and rivers, light-draft fighting-vessels were required, and the most immediate means of securing these was to purchase everysort of merchant craft that could possibly be adapted to the purposes of war, either as a fighting-vesselor as a transport. The ferryboat in the picture has been provided with guns and her pilot-houses casemate of iron plates has been provided for the gunners. The Navy Department purchased andequipped in all one hundred and thirty-six vessels in 1861, and by the end of the year had increased thenumber of seamen in the service from 7,600 to over 22,000. Many of these new recruits saw their firstactive service aboa
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