Naval battles of America; great and decisive contests on the sea from colonial times to the present, including our glorious victories at Manila and Santiago; . MERRIMAC AND MONITOR. MARCH yTH, HE United States Navy Department hadbeen informed that the Confederateauthorities had raised the hull of the finefrigate Merrimac, which had been burnedat the Navy Yard at Norfolk, at thebreaking out of the civil war, and haderected a huge iron casemate upon her engines in good working order,It was confidently expected by the Confederates that thisnovel and formidable craft would be able
Naval battles of America; great and decisive contests on the sea from colonial times to the present, including our glorious victories at Manila and Santiago; . MERRIMAC AND MONITOR. MARCH yTH, HE United States Navy Department hadbeen informed that the Confederateauthorities had raised the hull of the finefrigate Merrimac, which had been burnedat the Navy Yard at Norfolk, at thebreaking out of the civil war, and haderected a huge iron casemate upon her engines in good working order,It was confidently expected by the Confederates that thisnovel and formidable craft would be able to capture ordestroy tl-ie Union fleet, in Hampton Roads, raise theblockade at the Capes of Virginia, -and proceed toWashington, when the Capitol would be at the mercyof her powerful battery. This battery consisted of tenheavy rifled guns. In those days nothing was known about ironclads, andas week after week passed, and the monster, so oftenspoken of by the Norfolk papers, which was to clearout Hampton Roads, and to brush away the insolentfrigates which were blockading the James River atNewport News did not appear, people began to regardher as a bugbear. At any rate, the Union frigates werev
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