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Gr.-8°. Mit 15 (1 farb.) mehrf. gef. Karten, 1 Tafel und einigen Textabbildungen. XXXII, XLIX, 535, 455 SS. Booklet around 1900 (paper browned and foxed). "39th Congress, 1st Session. House of Representatives. Ex. Doc. No. 1".- Gideon Welles (1802-1878), nicknamed "Father Neptune", was the United States Secretary of the Navy from 1861 to 1869, a cabinet post he was awarded after supporting Abraham Lincoln in the 1860 election. Although opposed to the Union blockade of Southern ports, he duly carried out his part of the Anaconda Plan, largely sealing off the Confederate coastline and preventing the exchange of cotton for war supplies. This is viewed as a major cause of Union victory in the Civil War, and his achievement in expanding the Navy almost tenfold was widely praised. After Lincoln's assassination, Welles was retained by President Andrew Johnson as Secretary of the Navy.- Contents: "North Atlantic Squadron. First attack upon Fort Fisher. Second attack upon Fort Fischer. Operations near Wilmington subsequent to the capture of Fort Fisher. South Atlantic Squadron. Naval co-operation with General Sherman. Charleston, South Carolina. Operations against and abandonment of Charleston - Expedition to Bull's Bay. Rebel vessels taken possession of at Charleston. Obstructions and defences of Charleston Harbour. Destruction of the monitor Patapsco by a rebel torpedo. Loss of the United States steamer Dai-Ching. Occupation of Georgetown, South Carolina. Destruction of rebel fishery on Marsh Island. Mississippi Squadron. Loss of the U. S. steamer Undine. Potomac Flotilla. Pacific Squadron" etc.- Contains the following maps: "First attack upon Fort Fisher by the U.S. Navy under Rear Admiral D.D. Porter, Dec. 24 and 25, 1864 / Second attack upon Fort Fisher . Jan. 13, 14, 15, 1865 / Part of federal point entrance to Cape Fear River Sketch showing line of rebel fortifications . January 15th, 1865 / Plan of Fort Anderson, Cape Fear River . showing the line of attack by the gun-boats, February 18th 1865, under Rear Admiral D.D. Porter / Plan of the attack by gun-boats on Forts Strong and Lee, Cape Fear River, February 20th and 21st 1865 / General map of the Charleston Harbour South Carolina, showing Rebel Defences and Obstructions . Prepared by direction of Rear Admiral J. A. Dahlgren U.S.N. commanding South Atlantic Blockading Squadron by C. O. Boutelle Asst. U.S. Coast Survey 1865 / Map showing the Defences of Savannah, on the approaches of Wilmington and Savannah Rivers, Georgia / "Causten's Bluff" Fort" etc.