Assigned To The South Atlantic Blockade
The new tug was assigned to the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron and had arrived Port Royal, South Carolina, by 1 November. She served there during most of the remainder of the Civil War towing and repairing the ships of the blockade, steaming along the Confederate coast gathering information about activity ashore, carrying messages between ships of the squadron, and providing countless other services which helped the Union Navy to strangle the South.
On 8 December she was ordered to St. Simons Sound, Georgia, to seek word of General William Tecumseh Sherman’s army which was expected to emerge from the Georgia hinterland ending his famous march to the sea. Four days later she was sent to Savannah, Georgia, to assist the Union Army after it reached the sea.
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“As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn’t make a turning point of it, we were assigned to the humanities, to poetry, philosophy, painting—the nursery games of humankind, which had to be left behind when the age of science began. The humanities would be called upon to choose a wallpaper for the crypt, as the end drew near.”
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“As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn’t make a turning point of it, we were assigned to the humanities, to poetry, philosophy, painting—the nursery games of humankind, which had to be left behind when the age of science began. The humanities would be called upon to choose a wallpaper for the crypt, as the end drew near.”
—Saul Bellow (b. 1915)
“As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn’t make a turning point of it, we were assigned to the humanities, to poetry, philosophy, painting—the nursery games of humankind, which had to be left behind when the age of science began. The humanities would be called upon to choose a wallpaper for the crypt, as the end drew near.”
—Saul Bellow (b. 1915)
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—State of Utah, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
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—William Cowper (1731–1800)