...rivers. In Lincoln's expressive language, "Uncle Sam's web-feet" were present not only on "the broad bay, and the rapid river, but also up the narrow, muddy...bayou, and wherever the ground was a little damp." The navy was also responsible for the eventual destruction of the Confederate raiders engaged in harassing...

...margins they have been present. Not only on the deep sea, the broad bay. and the rapid river, but . . . wherever the ground was a little damp, they have been, and made their tracks."1 Lincoln's call for a blockade of Southern ports, which created the need for a large navy,...

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...forgotten. At all the watery margins they have been present. Not only on the deep sea, the broad bay, and the rapid river, but also up the narrow muddy...ground was a little damp, they have been, and made then- tracks. Thanks to all. For the great republic-for the principle it lives by, and keeps alive-...

...margins they have been present. Not only on the deep sea, the broad bay, and the rapid river, but . . . wherever the ground was a little damp, they have been, and made their tracks."' Nowhere else during the war was this statement more true than in the sounds, rivers, and inland waterways...

...the bays, rivers, bayous, and "wherever the ground was a little damp." "Thanks to all," he cheered. "For the great republic — for the principle it lives...alive — for man's vast future, — thanks to all." Received "with the greatest enthusiasm" by the 50,000 to 75,000 cheering Unionists who attended the...

...forgotten. At all the watery margins they have been present. Not only on the deep sea, the broad bay, and the rapid river, but also up the narrow, muddy bayou, and wherever their ground was a little damp, they have been, and made their tracks. Letter to James C. Conkling,...

...forgotten. At all the watery margins they have been present. Not only on the deep sea, the broad bay, and the rapid river, but also up the narrow muddy...little damp, they have been, and made their tracks." 1 Uncle Sam's Web-feet were, of course, the United States Navy. From rivers that penetrated deep into...

...forgotten. At all the watery margins they have been present. Not only on the deep sea, the broad bay, and the rapid river, but also up the narrow muddy...and made their tracks. Thanks to all. For the great republic—for the principle it lives by, and keeps alive—for man's vast future—thanks to all."...