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The Daily Dispatch: August 21, 1861., [Electronic resource], Cease defences — marine and water batteries. (search)
The Mercury also contains a communication of considerable length in relation to the late Gen. Gaines, and his views on the subject of national defences. Seeing that the introduction of steam power was destined to work a great change in the art of war, Gen, Gaines came to the conclusion that "the invasion and occupation of any inhabited portion of the interior sections of this country by a hs" or moving forts, from the range of whose guns the enemy could not escape. The plan of Gen. Gaines had also a feature for closing harbors against an enemy, which he describes at length in a lerce sufficient for the destruction of any hostile squadron." For more than thirty years Gen. Gaines urged his plans upon the attention of the Government at Washington, but without success. Theed more important than the preservation of national safety and honored. Gen. Jackson assured Gen. Gaines of his approbation, and gave it as his opinion that "the reason why his system of defence, wh