U. S. Navy in the Civil War
"After the inauguration of Mr. Lincoln as President," wrote Rear
Admiral Daniel Ammen, "a painful lethargy (Fatigue
(also called exhaustion, lethargy, languidness, languor, lassitude, and
listlessness) seemed to pervade every, branch of the
Administration, while the South was arming and organizing with extraordinary
activity for the avowed purpose of destroying the Government, which apparently
supinely awaited that event."
An "instant navy" was needed, first to seal off the more than three
thousand miles of bays, inlets, river mouths, and deltas that stretched from
Virginia through the Gulf of Mexico. Such a goal would become known as the
Anaconda Plan, aimed at strangling the rebellion.
(Note: Most of the information here will be pictures of headstones of Navy Veterans. If anyone would like to submit any pictures for this section, or any other Civil War section, please do so. I am looking for headstone pictures of any and all Civil War Veterans. When submitting pictures, I will need to know the name of the person, where the picture was taken, (i.e. the name of the cemetery and location of the cemetery,) the unit the soldier was in, if they were in the Navy, the name of their ship and the person submitting the information so I can give them (you) credit.)