Belles, beaux and brains of the 60's . e latter captured a prize last year in the person of Miss Kate Massie Ryanof Norfolk. The daughtersare Miss Sallie H. Barron,Mrs. Imogen W. Denny andMrs. Agnes N. Segar. Barrons gentle and popu-lar sister, so sought by thebest of both sexes when inRichmond, became the wifeof Captain Edward R. Baird,of General George Pickettsstaff; she died twelve yearsago, leaving ten children,who are still living. Lieutenant-C o m m a n d e rJohn M. Brooke left the oldnavy to win fame in the new and to create an era in ord-nance. Scientific, reticent and untiring, he per
Belles, beaux and brains of the 60's . e latter captured a prize last year in the person of Miss Kate Massie Ryanof Norfolk. The daughtersare Miss Sallie H. Barron,Mrs. Imogen W. Denny andMrs. Agnes N. Segar. Barrons gentle and popu-lar sister, so sought by thebest of both sexes when inRichmond, became the wifeof Captain Edward R. Baird,of General George Pickettsstaff; she died twelve yearsago, leaving ten children,who are still living. Lieutenant-C o m m a n d e rJohn M. Brooke left the oldnavy to win fame in the new and to create an era in ord-nance. Scientific, reticent and untiring, he perfected thatfamous gun which made toys of Federal frigates and jammedthe turret of the invulnerable Monitor. I had the priv-ilege of being at the test of this product of the Tredegarworks: a banded, welded and laminated rifle, the first inthe world to project a seven-inch shell. Indubitably thisgun was a new era in warfare: the progenitor of the cost-lier—and far greater—bores of the recent past. Brookewas vindicated by LIEUT. SAMUEL BARRON BELLES, BEAUX AND BBAINS OF THE SIXTIES 351 Two of the naval show prizes, rare as they were in thewar lottery, fell to Admiral Franklin Buchanan. The firstwas in Hampton Roads, on a balmy morning, March 8th,with one so-called ironclad—the first and only effectiveone of the war, and with the Brooke gun—when he wonthe only naval victory of the war. The ram Virginia was the razed U. S. frigate, Mer-rimac, gun-decked at water line; and turtled low with shellof railroad iron melted into 4-inch steel plates. Thus shehad defence that a modern rifle-bolt had pierced as a hotneedle would soft butter. Her commander was Admiral Buchanan, with CatesbyR. Jones second in command and Robert D. Minor, James river fleet had been ordered down; consist-ing of four small wooden vessels: the flagship James-town of Commodore John R. Tucker; the Yorktown,Commander Ariel N. Barney: and the midgets of smallestclass, Raleigh and Beaufort
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