{"id":"01KG8AKA6CQRX9DW5V9DHFBFCY","cid":"bafkreiaaftovgweygox5be4lf4glat6rmmexhxelhv7adyu73dar5a7icu","type":"chunk","properties":{"end_line":5053,"extracted_at":"2026-01-30T20:47:58.829Z","extracted_by":"structure-extraction-lambda","label":"Chunk 1","source_file":"01KG89J1G8S4TRWXNCBRKCRKS8","start_line":4966,"text":"Footnotes.\r\n\r\n\r\n1. The gloomy lull of the early part of the winter of 1860-1, seeming\r\nbig with final disaster to our institutions, affected some minds that\r\nbelieved them to constitute one of the great hopes of mankind, much as\r\nthe eclipse which came over the promise of the first French Revolution\r\naffected kindred natures, throwing them for the time into doubt and\r\nmisgivings universal.\r\n\r\n2. “The terrible Stone Fleet on a mission as pitiless as the granite\r\nthat freights it, sailed this morning from Port Royal, and before two\r\ndays are past will have made Charleston an inland city. The ships are\r\nall old whalers, and cost the government from $2500 to $5000 each. Some\r\nof them were once famous ships.--” (From Newspaper Correspondences of\r\nthe day.)\r\n\r\nSixteen vessels were accordingly sunk on the bar at the river entrance.\r\nTheir names were as follows:\r\n\r\nAmazon,\r\nAmerica,\r\nAmerican,\r\nArcher,\r\nCourier,\r\nFortune,\r\nHerald,\r\nKensington,\r\nLeonidas,\r\nMaria Theresa,\r\nPotomac,\r\nRebecca Simms,\r\nL.C. Richmond,\r\nRobin Hood,\r\nTenedos,\r\nWilliam Lee.\r\n\r\nAll accounts seem to agree that the object proposed was not\r\naccomplished. The channel is even said to have become ultimately\r\nbenefited by the means employed to obstruct it.\r\n\r\n3. The _Temeraire_, that storied ship of the old English fleet, and the\r\nsubject of the well-known painting by Turner, commends itself to the\r\nmind seeking for some one craft to stand for the poetic ideal of those\r\ngreat historic wooden warships, whose gradual displacement is lamented\r\nby none more than by regularly educated navy officers, and of all\r\nnations.\r\n\r\n4. Some of the cannon of old times, especially the brass ones, unlike\r\nthe more effective ordnance of the present day, were cast in shapes\r\nwhich Cellini might have designed, were gracefully enchased, generally\r\nwith the arms of the country. A few of them--field-pieces--captured in\r\nour earlier wars, are preserved in arsenals and navy-yards.\r\n\r\n5. Whatever just military criticism, favorable or otherwise, has at any\r\ntime been made upon General McClellan’s campaigns, will stand. But if,\r\nduring the excitement of the conflict, aught was spread abroad tending\r\nthe unmerited disparagement of the man, it must necessarily die out,\r\nthough not perhaps without leaving some traces, which may or may not\r\nprove enduring. Some there are whose votes aided in the re-election of\r\nAbraham Lincoln, who yet believed, and retain the belief, that General\r\nMcClellan, to say the least, always proved himself a patriotic and\r\nhonorable soldier. The feeling which surviving comrades entertain for\r\ntheir late commnder is one which, from its passion, is susceptible of\r\nversified representation, and such it receives.\r\n\r\n6. At Antietam Stonewall Jackson led one wing of Lee’s army, consequenty\r\nsharing that day in whatever may be deemed to have been the fortunes of\r\nhis superior.\r\n\r\n7. Admiral Porter is son of the late Commodore Porter, commander of the\r\nFrigate Essex on that Pacific cruise which ended in the desparate fight\r\noff Valparaiso with the English frigates Cherub and Phoebe, in the year\r\n1814.\r\n\r\n8. Among numerous head-stones or monuments on Cemetery Hill, marred or\r\ndestroyed by the enemy’s concentrated fire, was one, somewhat\r\nconspicuous, of a Federal officer killed before Richmond in 1862.\r\n\r\nOn the 4th of July 1865, the Gettysburg National Cemetery, on the same\r\nheight with the original burial-ground, was consecrated, and the\r\ncorner-stone laid of a commemorative pile.\r\n\r\n9. “I dare not write the horrible and inconceivable atrocities\r\ncommitted,” says Froissart, in alluding to the remarkable sedition in\r\nFrance during his time. The like may be hinted of some proceedings of\r\nthe draft-rioters.\r\n\r","title":"Chunk 1"},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KG8AJS1YZ9QWGH80MPQQXFZK","peer_type":"backmatter","predicate":"in"},{"peer":"01KG89J1G8S4TRWXNCBRKCRKS8","peer_type":"file","predicate":"extractedFrom"},{"peer":"01KG89HMDZKNY753EZE1CJ8HZW","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"},{"peer":"01KG8AKA6JDH1776NW3AE6SBJP","peer_type":"chunk","predicate":"next"}],"ver":2,"created_at":"2026-01-30T20:48:00.204Z","ts":"2026-01-30T20:48:02.700Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFF0H3YRP9ZSM033AM0QJ47H"}}