Identifier: abrahamlinco2104nico (find matches)
Title: Abraham Lincoln : a history
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Nicolay, John G. (John George), 1832-1901 Hay, John, 1838-1905, joint author
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Presidents
Publisher: New York : Century Co.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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e Southern end it is fifteen miles in width,narrowing to six as it reaches the city. Through-out the greater part of its area the water is onlytwelve or fourteen feet deep with gently shelvingshores; but there is a channel two and a half mileswide, running from the mouth of the bay six milesnorthward, in which the depth is from twenty totwenty-four feet. The main entrance was guardedby two low-lying sand-points, both strongly forti-fied : on the east Mobile point, a projection of themainland, with Fort Morgan, and on the westDauphin Island, one of the chain which separatesMississippi Sound from the Gulf, with Fort Gaines.There was a passage into the bay from thesound, by way of Grants Pass, guarded by FortPowell, but it was practicable only to vessels oflight draft. The only way in for Farragut and hisfleet was between the guns of Morgan and Gaines.There was not much to be feared from the latterfort, as it was more than two miles from thechannel. A line of piles was planted along this
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lit > MOBILE BAY 225 entire distance, to force all vessels entering the chap. x.harbor to pass directly under the guns of FortMorgan. This was a work of great strength, andsince its seizure by the Confederates they hadthrown up in addition heavy exterior water bat-teries. The main fort carried forty guns, and theouter works seven more. The channel was thicklyplanted with torpedoes; a narrow gap was left forthe convenience of blockade runners, its limit beingmarked with buoys. Every student of the history of the Rebellionwill be struck with the remarkable energy and in-genuity displayed in the South in supplying theirwar material. A state of war powerfully stimu-lates production and invention in every depart-ment of human activity. In the North there wasa vast development of intelligent industry aided byunbounded resources and opportunities ; the pres-sure of necessity in the South, acting upon mindsof great natural aptitude, produced astonishing re-sults in the way of invention, an

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