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Title: The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Miller, Francis Trevelyan, 1877-1959 Lanier, Robert S. (Robert Sampson), 1880-
Subjects: United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Pictorial works United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865
Publisher: New York : Review of Reviews Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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fwar, it can easily be seen how few men who were actually deep-sea sailors were placed on board of them. There was very littleattempt made to do more than to work them into useful shapeat first. The adage of the old service was, It takes three yearsto make a sailor, and sailors, in the proper sense of the term,most of them never became. But on the regular ships of thenavy all the old order was maintained. The warrant-ofiicersconsisted of the boatswain, giumer, sailmaker, and carpenter,and the divisions of the crew in this order followed: jjettj offi-cers, able seamen, ordinary seamen, landsmen, and first- andsecond-class boys. The chief petty officer is the master-at-arms, who is really the chief of police of the ship; he has twoassistants, who are called ships corjiorals. Then come the quar-termasters, who, with the caj^tain of the forecastle, are sup-posed to be the best of the ships seamen. The quartermasters,in time of action, steer the vessel, and in port, report to the (282) So)
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or PUB, CO. AL FRESCO COOKING ON THEFAMOUS MOiNITOR This is the deck of the original Monitor,vnth part of the crew that had participatedin tlie fight in Hampton Roads. The savorysmoke is blowing away from the fire, wherethe ships cook is preparing the mid-daymeal. The crew are awaiting the mess-call,and in the foreground are seated two of thefire-room force. There was one thing that themen on the monitors had a right to complainof: it was the intense heat generated betweendecks after a days e.cposure to the sun. Itwas difficult to obtain proper ventilation inthis class of vessel at the best. The woodensliips, with their high top sides, their hangingwind sails or canvas ventilators, and theirranges of open ports, admitted the free pas-sage of the air; but in the iron-decked mon-

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