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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book II:—the naval war. (search)
sink lower and lower, and this chain finally terminates in a succession of islets and rocks, which extend far into the sea in the direction of Havana. Dupont weighed anchor on the 28th of February to take possession of the principal points along this coast. The Wabash, bearing his pennant, was followed by eighteen gun-boats, a cutter, a transport fitted out as a man-of-war, and six transports with General Wright's brigade on board. General Sherman accompanied the expedition. On the 2d of March, the fleet came to anchor in the Bay of St. Andrews, whence it was to attack the inlets of St. Mary's Bay, which were defended by Fort Clinch, a work of considerable strength, built near Fernandina, at the same period and on the same model as Fort Pulaski. But at the news of the approach of the Federals, the Confederate troops had abandoned this part of the coast, Cumberland Island, Fernandina, and even Fort Clinch, whose solid masonry could, however, have enabled its garrison of fifteen
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book VII:—politics. (search)
ten years, or twenty at the utmost; a portion of them were sold on the 27th of February, at between ninety and ninety-six cents on the dollar. Moreover, on the 2d of March, on the eve of adjournment, they empowered the government, after raising the tariffs of custom-house duties, to negotiate another loan of ten millions of simila his department, and succeeded in recovering the confidence of capitalists and of the public in behalf of his government. The passage of the new tariff law of March 2d, which went into operation on the 1st of April, had, to a certain extent, relieved the credit of the Federal treasury; the Secretary took advantage of this to nlions of bonds which still remained in his hands out of the twenty-one millions voted for in June, 1860, not being authorized to sell them below par; the loan of March 2d could not be issued before the 1st of July, and he was not allowed by the law of February 8th to dispose of more than nine millions. He disposed of this last sc