. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . rifles, ball cartridges, percussion caps, and various sortsof arms and amnumition. No single ship, says Captain Hulloeli, ever took into the Confederacy a cargo so entirelycomposed of military and naval supplies. The Fingal, as she was originally named, was bottled up by the blockade inSavannah. In .January 18(iJ, the Confederates began converting her into an ironclad of the Merrimac type. She wascut down to the main deck and widened amidships. A casemate was built up
. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . rifles, ball cartridges, percussion caps, and various sortsof arms and amnumition. No single ship, says Captain Hulloeli, ever took into the Confederacy a cargo so entirelycomposed of military and naval supplies. The Fingal, as she was originally named, was bottled up by the blockade inSavannah. In .January 18(iJ, the Confederates began converting her into an ironclad of the Merrimac type. She wascut down to the main deck and widened amidships. A casemate was built upon her deck. Then she was heavily armoredand fitted with a formidable ram and a spar torpedo. Or July .Sd she steamed down the Savannah River on her trial trip,causing great a])prehension among fhe Iederals for tlie safety of the fleet about Port Royal, .\fter her capture by the Fed-erals on June 17, 18C3, the Confederates attempted to build otiier ironclads at Savannah. The Savannah was completed,fully armed, and mannecl, and llie Milledgex ille, the .same armored type, was nearly so when the city was evacuated in 1865,. ■^jg:.. REVIEW OF HEVfEWS CO. RUINS OF THE MACHINE-SHOP AT THE NORFOLK NAVY-YARD
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