USS New England (1861)
The first USS New England was a whaler purchased by the Union Navy at New London, Connecticut, on 21 November 1861.
New England was used in the "Stone Fleet" as an obstruction at Moffit Channel, Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, on 25 January 1862.
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“The instincts of merry England lingered on here with exceptional vitality, and the symbolic customs which tradition has attached to each season of the year were yet a reality on Egdon. Indeed, the impulses of all such outlandish hamlets are pagan still: in these spots homage to nature, self-adoration, frantic gaieties, fragments of Teutonic rites to divinities whose names are forgotten, seem in some way or other to have survived mediaeval doctrine.”
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