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154: 133: 160: 349: 32: 469: 132: 562: 398:. Determined vigilance and alert action won her 11 prizes, some of them taken under the guns of Confederate shore batteries. In a brief five days, she and two other ships in company took four 501: 547: 552: 557: 479: 153: 49: 379: 375: 115: 542: 96: 68: 53: 337: 141:(1861-1865) Depicted during the Civil War. This 19th-century photographic print may be of an artwork, or possibly a model. 75: 336:, with two powerful 8 in (203 mm) rifled guns, and assigned to the blockade of ports and waterways of the 82: 437: 42: 456: 371: 64: 363: 367: 432:, only to be made prisoner themselves by a party of armed Confederate men who sprang out of the brush. 567: 518: 326: 89: 452: 417: 399: 484: 421: 395: 391: 348: 536: 475: 20: 386:
helped tighten the stranglehold on the Confederacy as she cruised off the coasts of
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rowed through boiling surf, which swamped one of the boats, to burn the
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was a heavy (868 long tons (882 t)) steamship purchased by the
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Diary of a Contraband: The Civil War Passage of a Black Sailor
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American Civil War patrol vessels of the United States
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on 30 July 1861; and commissioned on 29 August 1861,
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USS Cambridge (1861-1865) Depicted during the Civil War. This 19th-century photographic print may be of an artwork, or possibly a model
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