Rear Admiral Dahlgren was made Commander of the Washington Navy Yard in 1862 and chief of the Bureau of Ordnance in 1863; in July 1863 he was given command of the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron where the massive Dahlgren guns he designed were…
Account of an Englishman's voyage across the Atlantic and his travels on land and water throughout eastern Canada and the United States, from New York to Iowa and back.