. Civil War stories . e machine. The Monitor fired a fewshots but did not follow. It required a month to repair the damages theMerrimac had received, and on the nth of April,followed by six gun-boats, she came into the Roadsagain. The Monitor was in sight with the Unionfleet, but her orders were positive not to briijg onan engagement in the shallows, where the woodenvessels would be unable to manceuver, and the THE MERRIMAC AND THE MONITOR 59 Merrimac returned without a battle. This pro-ceeding was repeated a few days later; the Merri-mac steamed out and then returned. Neitherside had another
. Civil War stories . e machine. The Monitor fired a fewshots but did not follow. It required a month to repair the damages theMerrimac had received, and on the nth of April,followed by six gun-boats, she came into the Roadsagain. The Monitor was in sight with the Unionfleet, but her orders were positive not to briijg onan engagement in the shallows, where the woodenvessels would be unable to manceuver, and the THE MERRIMAC AND THE MONITOR 59 Merrimac returned without a battle. This pro-ceeding was repeated a few days later; the Merri-mac steamed out and then returned. Neitherside had another iron-clad, and neither wished torisk the destruction of the craft that protected sovast a stake. Thus the Monitor stayed the courseof the Merrimac and prevented all the great re-sults that were hoped by one side and feared bythe other. For a while the issue of the warseemed to depend on the little champion, and shestood her ground. It was like the nursery storiesin which the dwarf beat off the giant and savedthe ELEANORS COLONEL BY ANNAH ROBINSON WATSON ELEANOR FAIRFAX lived in the Shenan-doah Valley, one of the most beautiful partsof Virginia. Her home was the prettiest rose-covered cot-tage in a small village, and here her young motherlived, with only Mammy Liza, the old colorednurse, to help her take care of the household. Eleanors father had gone off to the war withthe Southern soldiers, and Mammy Lizas hus-band, Uncle Reuben, had gone, too, to take careof young marstuh, he said. As yet, no Northern soldiers had been seen inthe town, and Eleanor and her little friends oftenpaused in their games to wonder what these sol-diers were like, and whether they would everreally come. Eleanor was the eldest of three children, andoften her mother would take her in her arms andtalk long and seriously. 60 ELEANORS COLONEL 61 You must help mother, she would say ten-derly, father has gone, and mother has no onebut Eleanor to help her. Father is a Secesh,1 is nt he? said Eleanor,slo
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