Commanding lincoln's navy : union naval leadership during the civil war / stephen r. taaffe.9/24/2023 ![]() Neither Mervine, 70 years old, nor Stringham, a relative youth at 62, lasted five months. Tightly constrained by seniority and loyalty, Welles appointed William Mervine and Silas Stringham as the first two wartime squadron commanders in May 1861. Throughout the war, Welles was able to choose his senior commanders from a small pool of Regular Navy officers-the unattractiveness of seagoing life and the lure of high rank in the Army spared the Navy from “political admirals.” The departure of the officers who “went South,” however, both shrank the pool of potential squadron commanders and forced Welles to consider the loyalty of those who remained.Ī key theme is how Welles’s criteria for choosing commanders changed over time. When war broke out, Welles found it as difficult to find commanders as he did to find ships. ![]() Navy promotion and assignment was controlled by a system of strict seniority that was inefficient and ineffective even in peacetime. Navy and the evolution of the philosophy that Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles used to select them. Taaffe’s Commanding Lincoln’s Navy addresses both the men who achieved squadron command in the Civil War U.S.
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![]() I'll have to give that a try in a few weeks and see if its better than the General Midi option. On top of that, I think the soundtrack was also tweaked for the AWE32's EMU8k default wavetable and many think that's the best version (well that's what I remember from back in the day). But I can say that the game sounds best to most people on General Midi (but using a Roland Sound Canvas), it also has the FM soundtrack tweaked for taking advantage of things like the Sound Blaster and compatibles. ![]() Rixasha, that's a hard question to answer without the games producer to do it for us. Now why on earth you would want to use Microsoft GS (even with stereo enabled) when there are so many better options is beyond me, but to each their own. You'll find that Microsoft GS does the ability to output stereo. You can always check to ensure your stereo output with many free music utilities like Audacity. On top of that, you can also disable stereo output of a soundfont without knowing you did and that leaves you with mono. I can understand why as loosing anything that adds spatial effects to sound and then comparing it to something else that offers that ability can make it seem that there is a loss of a channel. Vulchor, you may think that its mono because of the lack of effects. However, the samples are both highly compressed (which really makes them sound pretty bad compared to the Roland GS sound canvas they are taken from), and its missing all the effects that one would find on a real Roland SC unit. Windows default GS soundfont is not missing any samples, and does indeed support full stereo. |
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