. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . rom the shock of the explosion. In Commander Febigers report the time ofour contact was said to be some few us, at least, there seemed time enough forthe other ships to close in on the ram andsink her, or sink beside her, and it was thirteenminutes as timed by an officer, who told me;but the other shijjs were silent, and withstopped engines looked on as the cloudsclosed over us in the grim and final struggle. Captain French of the Mia/iii, who hadbravely fought his ship at close quarters, andoften at the ships length, vainly tried
. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . rom the shock of the explosion. In Commander Febigers report the time ofour contact was said to be some few us, at least, there seemed time enough forthe other ships to close in on the ram andsink her, or sink beside her, and it was thirteenminutes as timed by an officer, who told me;but the other shijjs were silent, and withstopped engines looked on as the cloudsclosed over us in the grim and final struggle. Captain French of the Mia/iii, who hadbravely fought his ship at close quarters, andoften at the ships length, vainly tried to getbows on, to come to our assistance and usehis torpedo; but his ship steered badly, and hewas unable to reach us before we dropped the mean time the IVyalnsing ?,\gy\di\ei\. thatshe was sinking — a mistake, but one thataffected materially the outcome of the struck exactly at the spot for which we hadaimed; and, contrary to the diagram given inthe naval report for that year, the headway of I THE CAREER OF THE ALBEMARLE: 431. all hands lie down! both ships twisted our bows, and brought usbroadside to broadside — our bows at the en-emys stern and our starboard paddle-wheelon the forward starboard angle of his the report mentioned, I not onlyplace my own observation, but I have in mypossession the written statement of the navi-gator, Boutelle, now a member of Congressfrom Maine. At length we drifted off the ram, and ourpivot-gun, which had been fired incessantlyby Ensign Mayer, almost muzzle to muzzlewith the enemys guns, was kept at work tillwe were out of range. The official report says that the other shipswere then got in line and fired at the enemy,also attempting to lay the seine to foul his pro-peller— a task that proved, alas, as impracti-cable as that of injuring him by the fire of theguns. While we were alongside, and haddrifted broadside to broadside, our 9-inchDahlgren guns had been depressed till theshot would strike at rig
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