Every effort has been made to replicate this text as faithfully as possible, including obsolete and variant spellings, and inconsistent hyphenation. Obvious typographical errors in punctuation have been fixed. Corrections [in brackets] in the text are noted below:
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looking into the old town of [Concepion[Concepción], between two and three hundred miles from Valparaiso. In the
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coast of Texas and [Lousiana[Louisiana] were occupied by detachments of vessels, as the surest way of enforcing
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genius for war than an [acccomplished[accomplished] (instruit) officer;" and to the lack of that studious
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Navy, United States, [indequate[inadequate] strength of
Table of Contents and Chapter Titles that do not match were not changed:
[page 196:] THE BLOCKADE AND PORT HUDSON.
TOC says: [THE BLOCKADE, AND THE PASSAGE OF PORT HUDSON, 1862-1863]
[page 237:] MOBILE.
TOC says: [MOBILE BAY FIGHT, 1864]