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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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INADEQUATE ARMOR-DECK OF THE GALENA AFTER HER GREAT FIGHT The Galena early proved incapable of the work for which she had been ))lanned. It was the belief thather armor would enable her to stand u)) against the powerful land-batteries of the Confederates. Thistlie New Ironsides could do; her sixteen guns could pour in such a hail of missiles that it was difficult forcannoneers on land to stand to their posts. The Galena, with but six guns, found this condition exactlyreversed, and on IVIay 15. 1862, she was found wanting in the attack on Fort Darling, at Drewrys Bluff,the Federal navys first attempt to reach Ricjunond. There, under (oniniaiidcr John Rodgers, she came intodirect competition with Ericssons Monitor. Both vessels were ratetl in tlie same class, and their tonnagewas nearly ecjual. The engagement lasted three hours and twenty minutes. The two ironclads, anchoredwithin six hundred yards of the fort, sprung their l)roadsides upon it, eight guns in all against fourteen.In the

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