[ Photographs ] (Civil War) Black, James Wallace Pair of photographs of cadets of the U. S. Naval Academy at Newport, Rhode Island, the first showing them posed within the ruins of a fort, with a 3-masted ship in the back- ground, and the second a

[ Photographs ] (Civil War) Black, James Wallace Pair of photographs of cadets of the U. S. Naval Academy at Newport, Rhode Island, the first showing them posed within the ruins of a fort, with a 3-masted ship in the back- ground, and the second a portrait of them at the Newport campus. Albumen prints, 11 x 16 inches and slightly smaller, both on the original mount with Black's credit and Boston address and the second with a caption printed on mount recto. 1861-64 E1000-1500 At the start of the war, the Union, under the command of Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles, realized the need to protect its chief Naval Academy. Hence, the institution and its training ship (probably the three-master visible in the first view) were temporarily transferred to Newport, Rhode Island, a location where the academy would neither be too exposed or vulnerable to Confederate sympathizers.