. The naval history of the Civil War . fire of one hundred heavy gunsafloat and ashore! Everything on the outside of the Merri-mac seems to have been badly muzzles of two of the guns were shotoff, the anchors, smoke-stack and steampipes were shot away, railing, stanchions,boat davits, every thing was swept flagstaff was repeatedly shot away, andfinally a boarding pike was substituted. During the engagement the Roanoke and St. Lawrence, in tow of tugs, madeevery effort to join in the combat, but likethe Minnesota, they ran on shore sometwo miles above Fortress Monroe. Whil
. The naval history of the Civil War . fire of one hundred heavy gunsafloat and ashore! Everything on the outside of the Merri-mac seems to have been badly muzzles of two of the guns were shotoff, the anchors, smoke-stack and steampipes were shot away, railing, stanchions,boat davits, every thing was swept flagstaff was repeatedly shot away, andfinally a boarding pike was substituted. During the engagement the Roanoke and St. Lawrence, in tow of tugs, madeevery effort to join in the combat, but likethe Minnesota, they ran on shore sometwo miles above Fortress Monroe. While the above incidents were takingplace, the day had passed, and the com-manding officer of the Merrimac, find-ing he could not take possession of the Congress, abandoned her to the glorious it must have seemed to thisofficer, who served nearly half a centuryunder the stars and stripes, to see that flaghauled down by rebel hands, and those gal-lant men, who had once served under andadmired him, ruthlessly slaughtered at his. CAPTAIN JOHN ERICSSON, INVENTOR OF THE MONITOR. cool command ! He may have thought itglory then, but in after years, we believe,regret possessed him, and contributed toshorten his life. At five oclock p. M. the Merrimacturned towards the Minnesota, whichship lay aground apparently at her mercy,but the pilots would not attempt the middlechannel with the ebb tide, and night wasfast approaching. So the Merrimac re-turned to Sewells Point and anchored. Inpassing the Minnesota the iron-cladopened fire, but only a single shot struckthe frigate; the gun-boats, however, ac-companying the Merrimac did muchgreater damage with their rifled guns,though they were finally driven off by theheavy guns which the Minnesota carriedforward. The ten-inch pivot gun of the Minne-sota produced no effect on the iron clad,theshot glancing like pebbles from her sides,and it was plain that the Minnesota,as soon as the tide would allow the Con-federate vessel to come to close
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