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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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WITH ALL SAILS SET Despite the presence of magnificent force and migiit in the great modern vessel of war tliat rates from twelveto twenty thousand tons, there is little that suggests the romance of the sea about the huge mass of steel,magnificent and formidable though it may appear. The modern ship is sexless, or rather masculine.But no one would apply to such a fine old war-vessel as is pictured here, the training-ship Saratoga,anything less than the sailors half-endearing term of femininity. Ships, just as we see this one, foughtin the War of the Revolution, and, with hardly a change, the Saratoga appears here as in theMediterranean she forged ahead in chase of one of the Barbary pirates, or maneuvered to cscajjc from aBritish seventy-four in the War of 1812. In tlic older days, she would nut have liad the handy doubletopsails which give her one more yard to each mast. Per)ui))s with single topsails she looked still hand-somer. It required seamanship m those days to make a landfall

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