by Josephine Pollard
with Ninety-Five Etchings by Edwin Forbes
This is a volume for young children, designed to acquaint them with the history and heroes of the United States Navy during the Civil War. A good idea of the coverage of the book can be gained from the titles of the excellent full-page illustrations of which there are fifteen. These are: Fight between the Merrimac and Monitor; Bombardment of Port Royal; Burning of the Norfolk Navy Yard; Passing the Forts Below New Orleans; Capture of New Orleans; The Fight of the Kearsarge and Alabama; The Sinking of the Alabama; The Start of the Red River Expedition; Red River Expedition Fleet Passing Through the Dam; Passing the Forts at Mobile Bay; The Hartford Ramming the Tennessee; Blowing up the Albermarle; Bombardment of Fort Fisher; Assault on the Land Side of Fort Fisher; and Interior of Fort Fisher. David Glasgow Farragut rates a chapter of his own, and appears in several more, and the cover of the original book shows the famous scene of him lashed to the rigging to better direct his gunners on board his flagship the Hartford during the battle of Mobile Bay. First published in 1886. 95 illustrations of which 15 are full-page plates.
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