A Memorial of David Dixon Porter From the City of Boston
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Sherman, plunging into the heart of the Confederate territory, was about 60 MEMORIAL or DAVID DIXON POUTER. to strike the sea at Savannah, whence his veteran army, flushed with success, could move northward towards Virginia. "If Wilmington falls," Grant wrote to him, "a force from there will cooperate with you." nSTever before had it fallen to the lot of an Amer- ican oflBcer to command such a squadron as the great armada with which the admiral was now to attack Fort Fisher. It comprised five a...rmored ships, headed by the powerful " 'New Ironsides ; " three of the great screw frigates, the " Colorado," " Minne- sota," and " Wabash," once the pride of the navy, but too large to have seen much service in the shallow waters where the naval war had hitherto been carried on ; the side-wheelers, " Powhatan " and "Susquehanna ; " and fifty other vessels, corvettes, sloops of war, and gunboats, — while a second fleet, composed of transports, was provided for the troops. Many there were oiitside the fleet, and some within it, who thought it madness to take such a squadron to lie, in mid- winter, off" the Carolina coast; but the perils of the sea, which he was born to encounter, had no terrors for the admiral.
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