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Excerpt from The Life and Achievements of Admiral Dewey: From Montpelier to Manila Nothing more to say. He had made up his mind at Manila as Farragut at Mobile, and the master stroke in the nineties was like an echo of that of the sixties. The daring Dewey was with Porter on the Colorado when our fleet bombarded Fort Fisher and prepared the way for the assault that won, and causing the disturbance of the Court of Inquiry Why Fort Fisher Had Not Been Taken, by the salute of one hundred guns fired because Fort Fisher had been taken. The cannonading of the fort by the fleet was a majestic display, one of the grandest that have jarred the globe, and, though the Confederates fought on, the guns of the navy, hurling tons of iron in showers, with the marksmanship that makes our gunners matchless, though not alone conclusive, battered the fort and covered the landing. The army and navy were hand in hand, as they should be, and there was enough glory to go around. The passing of Forts Jackson and St. Phillip on the Mississippi and the subjugation of New Orleans prevented the Confederates from breaking the blockade, for if they had completed the ironclads under way they could have held the mouths of the river. If Fort Fisher had not been taken the dangers of European intervention between the United States and the Confederacy would have been seriously increased. The events that closed the ports of New Orleans and Wilmington against European supplies for the Confederates announced the doom of the Confederacy almost as positively as the march of Sherman to the sea and the raid of Wilson through the Gulf States were the preliminaries of Appomattox. George Dewey participated gallantly in both the eventful operations that so decisively turned the scale in favor of the unity of the country in which all our countrymen now rejoice, and he was schooled for the coming time when his own achievements would obliterate sections and expand the nation. In the war of Giants that reached this auspicious result through tempests of battle and rivers of the blood of the brave, we find George Dewey at the front in glorious perils and events that shaped destiny from New Orleans to Wilmington, and we mark his footsteps from Montpelier to Manila. The country fondly waits to welcome the conquering hero home. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.