Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Blue Jackets of 61: A History of the Navy in the War of Secession
United States. Indeed, though on the inauguration of President Lincoln on March 4, 1861, all these vessels were immediately recalled, not one arrived before the middle of June, and many were delayed until late in the following winter. Of the vessels at home, many were old-fashioned sailing frigates beautiful with their towering masts and clouds of snowy canvas.
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