. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . ed. Yes, we wantthem to be proofagainst heavyshot—to be plat-ed and heav-ily plated,—l)utthey must be Qf much liohter the ciuckasaw (type of the Milwaukee. all over witli iron an inch thick. The platingon llie sides was two and a half inclics tliick. Each vessel had a rotating. RECOLLECTIONS OF FOOTE AND THE GUN-BOATS. 343 turret, carrying two eleven-iueli guns, the tiuTet being six inches thick, butextending only a few feet above the deck of the vessel. I was very anxio
. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . ed. Yes, we wantthem to be proofagainst heavyshot—to be plat-ed and heav-ily plated,—l)utthey must be Qf much liohter the ciuckasaw (type of the Milwaukee. all over witli iron an inch thick. The platingon llie sides was two and a half inclics tliick. Each vessel had a rotating. RECOLLECTIONS OF FOOTE AND THE GUN-BOATS. 343 turret, carrying two eleven-iueli guns, the tiuTet being six inches thick, butextending only a few feet above the deck of the vessel. I was very anxiousto construct these tui-rets after a plan which I had devised, quite differentfrom the Ericsson or Coles systems, and in which the guns should be oper-ated by steam. But, within a month after the engagement at Fort Donelson,the memorable contest between the Merrimac and the Monitor occmred,whereupon the Navy Department insisted on Ericsson turrets being placedupon these two vessels. At the same time the department was anxious to have four larger vesselsfor operations on the lower Mississippi River, which should have two turretseach, and it consented that I should place one of my turrets on each of twoof these vessels (the Chickasaw and the Mihraitkee) at my own risk, to be re-placed with Ericssons in case of failure. These were the first turrets in whichthe guns were manipulated by steam, an
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