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Title: The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Miller, Francis Trevelyan, 1877-1959 Lanier, Robert S. (Robert Sampson), 1880-
Subjects: United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Pictorial works United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865
Publisher: New York : Review of Reviews Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Her hold eomniander, T. A. N.Graven, in an effort to grapple with the Confederate ramTennessee in Mobile Bay, ran through the line of torpedoes and lost his ship, which had fired the firsttwo guns in Farraguts brilliant battle. Ericsson did iiot approve of the jirinciple of the double-turretedmonitor. In the Saugus is well exemplified his princi))le of mounting gun.s in such a manner that theycould be brought to bear in any direction. This object was defeated somewhat in the double-turretedtype, since each turret masked a considerable angle of fire of the other. The Saugus, together with theTecumseh and Canonieus and the Onondaga, served in the six-hour action with Battery Dantzlerand the Confederate vessels in the James River, June 21, 1864. Again on August 13th she locked hornswith the Confederate fleet at Dutch Gap. She was actively engaged on the James and the Appomattoxand took part in the fall of Fort Fisher, the event that marked the beginning of the last year of the war. (E-9)
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THE LATEST TYPE OF IRON SEA-ELEPHANT IN 1864 After liaving stearlily planned ami linilt nmnitors of increasing effieiency during the %var, the Navy Department finally turned its at-tention to the production of a douhle-turreted ocean cruiser of this type. The Onondaga was one of the first to be completed.In the picture she is seen lying in the James River. There, near Howlctts, she had steamed into her first action, June 21,1801, withother Federal vessels engaging Uattery Dantzler, the ram Virginia. and the other Confederate vessels that were guarding Richmond.The Onondaga continued to participate in the closing operations of tlie navy on the James. Of tlus class of double-turreted monitorsthe Monadnock and the Miantonomoh startled the world after tlie war was over. Foreign and domestic .skeptics maintainedthat Gustavus Vasa Fox, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, who had earnestly advocated the construction of monitors while the tj^ie1 i:!2 )

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