The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-06-10
|HEERING THOUSAND. WELCOME HEROES
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and otfi CTS is. an insult to the world. land an injustice to the truth of his-
 abid you know, my comrades that a number of officers who resigned from branded as dsssrtersf Just think of it
 The highest act of patriotism that . duty. These men regarded their first duty as being due to their own sover- sign- states. Deserters indeed | cal upon yoy. @ comrades & Of a,, tns U. ns G to have the records corrested .s. Commodore Rollins stood near tne head of the United States Navy Wheh 5.sn the war came. His bravery and dip- lomacy had won for him splenale record in the annals of that service. He gave up all. and entered the Con
 tedsrats ioS navy, and fbe sefvsu war After it's close his friends secured him position in one of the petty courts of Baltimor and this man who had received dls- and prfnces. ended his days, as the Ecrier Of that court on bare fcrty dollars month. muster roll and roster never were over 4,000 men, hardly decent brigade, and they were were scattered all over ere tioh. and many of them so situated that they were powerless to render satis- factory service to the cause.
 Work of The Navy.
 What they did at home, let our
 nOs nssrs psra sna hasty sascs even at mention Of . few. Take the work in Hampton. Roads of Bnchansn sh msrr,r,a and n 2. changed the naval war methods of the Tucker and others h James River; the Brown from the Yazoo to the Mss issippi. through the Iron clads of Porter and then through the frigates of Far
 Tagpt, carrying death & and destruction 3, Mobile. where almost single handed th c Tennessee fought the entire federal fleet, without sufficient speed to main II sHad she the engines of the Hart. ford. and had her ateering gear not been shot away, Farragufs famous
 story in .nsBa MNSe 5sy asks Fht Fstna snys o so them. that attacked the whole federal fleet just before the. battle of Port Tomb Ton i, in ia aH the G submarins boat David. which torpedoed the New Ironsides jump overb oard, how Glassen was cap-
 bsy aa psp 5sg hs9 mS out na csarsG Sqs safely back to charIestcn; take the desperate assault made by John Taylor Wood and bis brave men In smell boats where 1t was death to fly, and death to remain on the vessel they had captured. owing to the deadly Ire from the other vessels and from shore, where they held her until she had burned all most to the waters edge; take the attack by Rollins at the mouth of the Mississippi where. with three insigni- fcant boats he drove four of the lead- ing ships from the river, including th c Rich n0nd: and this same Hollins' bril- liant capture of the St. Nicholas on the Potomac earlier in the war; take Mitcheil's brilliant though ineffectual defenee of New Orleans. where Ken mons steamboat sunk the Varuna, warley's ram Manassas insignificant in size, butted into everything she could reach, and after ramming three vessels was fired by the enemy's shell and scuttled to keep her from being cap- tured, her crew jumping overheard; where Euger and Read fought the ed. and in the break of day. her decks covered with dead and dying, she was still nying the confederate flag. The list could be swelled to q volume. Such was the proud record of our navy
 II ..The The South did not bring on the war. we simply defended ourselves when at- taeked. And since the chief aim of war is to do the enemy the greatest damage with least harm to ourselves, our small navy did more to the federal government. in proportion to the num- hers engaged. aye. very much more, Ihan did the confederate army. It was
 herefore at sea where the great dam
 Age was done the enemy. There we