By John Lorimer Worden, Samuel Dana Greene, H. Ashton Ramsay
This is often the first-hand tale of what was once performed and visible and felt on either side within the conflict of the video display and the Merrimac. the particular reports on either vessels are pictured, in a single case by means of the commander of the video display, then a lieutenant, and the subsequent in rank, Lieutenant Greene, and within the different through Chief-Engineer Ramsay of the Merrimac. truly any such list of non-public studies has a spot on its own within the literature of the topic.
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The Merrimac as an ironclad was faster under steam 32 THE MERRIMAC AND THE MONITOR than she had ever been before with her top hamper of masts and sails. I presented myself to the commodore. "The machinery is all right, sir," I assured him. Across the river at Newport News gleamed the batteries and white tents of the Federal camp and the vessels of the fleet blockading the mouth of the James, chief among them the Congress and the Cumberland, tall and stately, with every line and spar clearly denned against the blue March sky, their decks and ports bristling with guns, while the rigging of the Cumberland was gay with the red, white, and blue of sailors' garments hung out to dry.
They had seen us, too, and were getting up steam. Bright - colored signal flags were run up and down the masts of all the ships of the Federal fleet. The Congress shook out her topsails. Down came the clothes-line on the Cumberland, and boats were lowered and dropped astern. Our crew was summoned to the gun-deck, and Buchanan addressed us: "Sailors, in a few minutes you will have the long-looked-for opportunity of showing your devotion to 34 THE MERRIMAC AND THE MONITOR our cause. Remember that you are about to strike for your country and your homes.
Some of the workmen in the navy-yard scuttled and sank her, thus putting out the flames. When she was raised by the Confederates she was nothing but a burned and blackened hulk. Her charred upper works were cut away, and in the center a casement shield one hundred and eighty feet long was built of pitch-pine and oak, two feet thick. This was covered with iron plates, one to two inches thick and eight inches wide, bolted over each other and through and through the woodwork, giving a protective armor four inches in thickness.
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