. The uplift [serial] . k and Portsmouthwere evacuated, April 19, 1S61 byFederals, the Merrimac along withothers was dismantled and burnedto the water-line. The Virginia. Is the outgrowth of a developmentupon the hull of the destroyer Mer-rimac. Driven to the necessity ofprotecting the Norfolk harbor, theConfederate authorities decided toraise the Merrimac and constructon her hull a powerful battery. AVirginian, whose name we couldnot definitely ascertain, furnished theplans by which the work of con-struction was carried to completion. Capt. E. V. White, a Georgian, butbecoming a citizen of Po
. The uplift [serial] . k and Portsmouthwere evacuated, April 19, 1S61 byFederals, the Merrimac along withothers was dismantled and burnedto the water-line. The Virginia. Is the outgrowth of a developmentupon the hull of the destroyer Mer-rimac. Driven to the necessity ofprotecting the Norfolk harbor, theConfederate authorities decided toraise the Merrimac and constructon her hull a powerful battery. AVirginian, whose name we couldnot definitely ascertain, furnished theplans by which the work of con-struction was carried to completion. Capt. E. V. White, a Georgian, butbecoming a citizen of , after the surrender, a witnessand participant in all that took placein the story that follows, and whoseprinted account we have at hand, ?says this of the Virginia, theConfederate Iron Clad warship, thefirst in all history: She was cover-ed amidships with a roof 170 feetlong, built at an angle of 45 degreesconstructed of 20-inch heart °pmeiind covered with four-inch this wood backing there were. The Merrimac destroyed at the burning of the Norfolk Navy Yard, April, 1861. two iron plates two inches thickand seven inches wide, one laid hor-izontally and the other vertically,making the armament four inchesthick. These plates were boltedthrough the wood and clinched onthe inside. Her bow was armed be-low the water with a east-iron prowabout six feet long, to be used as Her weakest element was hermotive power, her old engines andboilers having already been condemn-ed. Her ordinance consisted of tenguns, two 7-inch steel-banded Brookerifles, mounted as pivot-guns at the- ; 1 Georgian, btsM 1 .w Portsmouth^ >p ;r, a witnessr i l*1 at took placed: ? r ?•:: s, and whoseSig t. r.» ve at hand^s rginia, th»« - i*iv e was coverall [ v oof 170 feet|| C IV f 45 degreeaafi ?.. heart piniflB ur-inch oak&? g there wereSfe THE UPLIFT 13
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