The Battle of Mobile Bay and the Capture of Forts Powell, Gaines and Morgan, by the Combined Sea and Land Forces of the U.S. Under the Command of Rear-Admiral Farragut and Major-General Granger, August, 1864
Excerpt from The Battle of Mobile Bay: And the Capture of Forts Powell, Gaines and Morgan, by the Combined Sea and Land Forces of the United States, Under the Command of Rear-Admiral David Glasgow Farragut and Major-General Gordon Granger, August, 1864 Regarding the reputation for intrepidity gained by Federal and Confederate sailors and soldiers during our civil war as the common heritage of the American people, I determined, last year, at the instance of The Military Historical Society of Massachusetts, to write the ...
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Excerpt from The Battle of Mobile Bay: And the Capture of Forts Powell, Gaines and Morgan, by the Combined Sea and Land Forces of the United States, Under the Command of Rear-Admiral David Glasgow Farragut and Major-General Gordon Granger, August, 1864 Regarding the reputation for intrepidity gained by Federal and Confederate sailors and soldiers during our civil war as the common heritage of the American people, I determined, last year, at the instance of The Military Historical Society of Massachusetts, to write the story of Mobile Bay: This, when completed, I read before the Society, (december 10th, and the favorable reception it met with has induced me to give it to the public, the more especially as it is accompa nied with a number of official reports, never before published, which cannot fail to interest the general reader and be Of value to the historian. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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