. The naval history of the Civil War . many imperfec-tions, as we were new in the business ofbuilding iron-clads, and seem to have hadvery little idea what thickness of iron plat-ing was necessary to turn the heavy shot ofthe enemy. The iron-clads carried four thirty-twopounders on each side, three nine or ten-inch guns in their bow ports, and two lighter with the others to the Navy Department,her name was changed to Baron de there was already a St. Louis in theNavy. In the course of the succeedingtwenty days the Carondelet, Cincin-nati, Louisville. MoundCity, Cairoand Pittsburg* follo
. The naval history of the Civil War . many imperfec-tions, as we were new in the business ofbuilding iron-clads, and seem to have hadvery little idea what thickness of iron plat-ing was necessary to turn the heavy shot ofthe enemy. The iron-clads carried four thirty-twopounders on each side, three nine or ten-inch guns in their bow ports, and two lighter with the others to the Navy Department,her name was changed to Baron de there was already a St. Louis in theNavy. In the course of the succeedingtwenty days the Carondelet, Cincin-nati, Louisville. MoundCity, Cairoand Pittsburg* followed in rapid succes-sion. An eighth vessel, the Benton,superior in every respect to the above, wasundertaken. She was originally a wreck-ing boat, purchased by General Fremontand sent to Mr. Eads, whose ideas develop-ing as he went on building, he producedfrom this wrecking boat an iron-clad of re-markable strength. Thus in one hundred days this energeticman constructed a squadron of iron-cladgun-boats, aggregating five thousand tons,. V. S. GUN-BOATS TAYLOR AND LEXINGTON. guns in the stern. A casemate enclosed thewheel at the stern, and there was a conicalpilot-house forward covered with iron. Thewriter is particular in describing these ves-sels, as they performed such remarkableservice all through the war, and notwith-standing their defects and the vicissitudesthey experienced, no vessels in the Navy en-gaged in so many successful battles or madesuch a record for their commanding two weeks after the contract withEads was signed, four thousand men werebusily engaged in constructing the work was pushed night and day, andon the 12th of October, 1861, the was launched at Carondelet, Mis-souri, forty-five days after her keel waslaid. When this vessel was transferred ready for their armament of one hundredand seven heavy guns. Such a perform-ance needs no eulogy, and even had done no more in the cause of theUnion, he would have been enti
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