The First Iron Clad Naval Engagement in the World History of Facts of the Grea
The First Iron Clad Naval Engagement in the World History of Facts of the Grea
Ellsberry Valentine White
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S. Navy, including the "Vanderbilt, " which ship had been specially brought forward to accomplish her destruc- tion. We manned, carefully, four small steamers fully equipped to capture the "Monitor" by wedging the turret and securing down the hatches, and while one or more of these boats might have been destroyed, so well was our late antagonist's build then understood had either reached her she would, in my judgment, have been captured. Neither the "Monitor" nor any one of the large ships the ...U. S. Govern- ment had ordered there would come out from under the guns of Fortress Monroe, while one of our steamers, the "Jamestown, " was sent in near Hampton and captured three schooners loaded with hay and grain, and brought them safely to Norfolk. After cruising about, in challenge for battle, without having it accepted, the Commodore, showing signs of dis- gust, ordered a gun fired to the windward, and returned to the buoy off Sewell's Point, and anchored for the night. The next day we came to Norfolk for some repairs to the boiler.
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