. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . the world. In 18-11 P^ricsson was engaged in constructing the V. S. S. Princeton. She wasthe first steamship ever built with the propelling machinery below the water-line, and embodieda nimiber of Ericssons inventions — among them a new method of managing guns. At thetime Ericsson laid his plans for the Monitor lief ore the Navy Department, there existed a strongprejudice against him throughout the bureaus because his name had been unjustly assf)ciated withthe bursting of the Princetons 12-incli gun, February 28, 181-1, by which th
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . the world. In 18-11 P^ricsson was engaged in constructing the V. S. S. Princeton. She wasthe first steamship ever built with the propelling machinery below the water-line, and embodieda nimiber of Ericssons inventions — among them a new method of managing guns. At thetime Ericsson laid his plans for the Monitor lief ore the Navy Department, there existed a strongprejudice against him throughout the bureaus because his name had been unjustly assf)ciated withthe bursting of the Princetons 12-incli gun, February 28, 181-1, by which the Secretary of State,the Secretary of the Navy, Cap- Cj tain Kennon, antl Colonel Gard- iner were killed. The Naval Osjj**^^***,. /n Board nevertheless had the cour- age to recommend the Moni- /,^^^^^^\\ tor, and this last great invention of Ericsson brought him immor- / /n V^\^V^ Vi ^^ fame. lie died in New York in 1889. His body was sent C^ nvx Jp^li )r~~^ ^ ^ native laud on boan the U. S. S. Baltimore as a \ ^kOv-i-O,/^ JI mark of the navvs high esteem,. (: /•
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