. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . ward oftwelve hundred heavy guns, which were scattered among Confederate fortifi-cations from the Potomac to the Mississippi. [See foot-note, p. 712]. Amongthe ships burnt and sunk was the frigate Merrimac of 3500 tons and 40 guns,afterward rechristened the Virf/iiiia, and so I will call her. During the summerof 1861 Lieutenant John M. Brooke, an accomplished officer of the old navy,who with many others had resigned, proposed to Secretary Mallory to raise andrebuUd this ship as an
. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . ward oftwelve hundred heavy guns, which were scattered among Confederate fortifi-cations from the Potomac to the Mississippi. [See foot-note, p. 712]. Amongthe ships burnt and sunk was the frigate Merrimac of 3500 tons and 40 guns,afterward rechristened the Virf/iiiia, and so I will call her. During the summerof 1861 Lieutenant John M. Brooke, an accomplished officer of the old navy,who with many others had resigned, proposed to Secretary Mallory to raise andrebuUd this ship as an iron-clad. His plans were approved, and orders were^ven to carry them out. She was raised and cut down to the old ends for seventy feet were covered over, and when the ship was in fight-ing trim were just awash. On the midship section, 170 feet in length, was builtat an angle of 45 degrees a roof of pitch-ijine and oak 24 inches thick, extend-ing from the water-line to a height over the gun-deck of 7 feet. [See pp. 715-717.] Both ends of the shield were rounded so that the pivot-guns could be. THE BURNING OF THE FRIGATE MERKIMAC AND OF THE GOSPORT NAVY-YARD. (SEE FOOT-NOTE, P. 712.) 694 THE FIRST FIGHT OF I RON-CL ADS.
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