. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . CHART OF THE ENGAGCMENT IN ALBEMARLE SOUND. A, Albemarle ; B, Bombshell: C T, Cotton Plant: M, Mattabesett; S, ; Wy, Wyalusing ; .Mi. Miami; C, Ceres ;Wh, Whitehead ; C H, Commodore Hull. Vol. XXXV^I.—61. 43° THE CAREER OF THE ALBEMARLEr ing it over and tearing away our own bows,ripping and straming our timbers at the water-line. The enemys Hghts were put out. andhis men hurled from their feet, and, as welearned afterward, it was thought for a momentthat it was all over with them. Our ship quiv-ered for an instant, but held fast, an
. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . CHART OF THE ENGAGCMENT IN ALBEMARLE SOUND. A, Albemarle ; B, Bombshell: C T, Cotton Plant: M, Mattabesett; S, ; Wy, Wyalusing ; .Mi. Miami; C, Ceres ;Wh, Whitehead ; C H, Commodore Hull. Vol. XXXV^I.—61. 43° THE CAREER OF THE ALBEMARLEr ing it over and tearing away our own bows,ripping and straming our timbers at the water-line. The enemys Hghts were put out. andhis men hurled from their feet, and, as welearned afterward, it was thought for a momentthat it was all over with them. Our ship quiv-ered for an instant, but held fast, and the swiftplash of the paddles showed that the engineswere uninjured. My own station was in thebow, on the main-deck, on a line with the. ACTING MASTER CHARLES A. BOITELLE, U. S. N. enemys guns. Through the starboard shutter,which had been partly jarred off by the con-cussion, I saw the port of the ram not tenfeet away. It opened; and like a flash oflightning I saw the grim muzzle of a cannon,the straining guns-crew naked to the waistand blackened with powder; then a blaze, aroar and rush of the shell as it crashed through,whirling me round and dashing me to thedeck. Both ships were under headway, and as theram advanced, our shattered bows clinging tothe iron casemate were twisted round, and asecond shot from a Brooke gun almost touch-ing our side crashed through, followed im-mediately by a cloud of steam and boilingwater that filled the forward decks as ourovercharged boilers, pierced by the shot, emp-tied their contents with a shrill scream an instant the roarof the guns. Theshouts of command and the cries of scalded,woundefl, and blinded men mingled with therattle of small arms that told of a hand-to-
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