. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . ng fort irrespective of the posi-tion of her hull. A shot to doserious damage must strike theheavy armor of the monitor S& squarely. The percentage of shots that could be so placed fromthe deck of a rolling ship was very small, most of them glancingoff from the circular turret and pilot-house or skidding harmlesslyalong the deck. Only the most powerful land batteries could makeany impression on these iron sea-elephants which the Fed-erals had learned how to
. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . ng fort irrespective of the posi-tion of her hull. A shot to doserious damage must strike theheavy armor of the monitor S& squarely. The percentage of shots that could be so placed fromthe deck of a rolling ship was very small, most of them glancingoff from the circular turret and pilot-house or skidding harmlesslyalong the deck. Only the most powerful land batteries could makeany impression on these iron sea-elephants which the Fed-erals had learned how to only vulnerable spot was^ below the water-line. The boom across the river in the picture, aswell as the torpedo-nets, arrangedat the bows of the the Confederates strove con-stantly to seize the advantage ofthis one weakness. The monitorsin the James and .4ppomatoxwere too vigilant to be thuscaught, although hundreds offloating mines were launched inthe current or planted in thechannel. The fleet, ever on thewatch for these, was kept busyraking them up and renderingthem harmless for passing
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