Young folks' history of the United States . bow of steel. Withthis she attacked the Union squadron at HamptonRoads. The wooden frigates assailed her in balls struck and glanced upward, having no moreeffect than peas from a pop-gun ; and at the end of theday the Union frigate Cumberland had gone down,her brave commander ordering one more broadside asshe sank ; the Congress was burned to the watersedge, and the Minnesota was aground. So mattersstood, when, at nine in the evening, a little vessel otinsignificant appearance, looking, as one eye-witnesshas said, like a capsized whale-ship,
Young folks' history of the United States . bow of steel. Withthis she attacked the Union squadron at HamptonRoads. The wooden frigates assailed her in balls struck and glanced upward, having no moreeffect than peas from a pop-gun ; and at the end of theday the Union frigate Cumberland had gone down,her brave commander ordering one more broadside asshe sank ; the Congress was burned to the watersedge, and the Minnesota was aground. So mattersstood, when, at nine in the evening, a little vessel otinsignificant appearance, looking, as one eye-witnesshas said, like a capsized whale-ship, and, as anothersaid, like a cheese-box on a raft, steamed into MONITOR AND MERRIMACK. ^01 Hampton Roads. It was the Monitor, commandedby Capt. John L. Worden, and invented by CaptainEricsson, an engineer of Swedish birth. In the morn-ing the Merrimack got under way again, and boredown upon the frigate that lay aground. The Moni-The con-tor, steaming alongside the Merrimack, opened * ram fired in returr. For two hours the contest.
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