Young folks' history of the United States . monitor and MERRIMACK. lasted, both ships using more powerful ordnance thanhad ever before been used in a naval encounter, andthis at a distance of one hundred and fifty yards ; yet thecannonade was useless. Neither produced the slight-est effect on the other, until at last the Monitor sent a shell through a porthole of her antagonist, doingsevere execution among the crew. After that the 302 YOUNG FOLKS UNITED STATES. Important Federal successes. Battle ofPittsburgLanding. Merrimack retreated, leaving the victory with thelittle Monitor. The whole nat
Young folks' history of the United States . monitor and MERRIMACK. lasted, both ships using more powerful ordnance thanhad ever before been used in a naval encounter, andthis at a distance of one hundred and fifty yards ; yet thecannonade was useless. Neither produced the slight-est effect on the other, until at last the Monitor sent a shell through a porthole of her antagonist, doingsevere execution among the crew. After that the 302 YOUNG FOLKS UNITED STATES. Important Federal successes. Battle ofPittsburgLanding. Merrimack retreated, leaving the victory with thelittle Monitor. The whole nation was relieved whenthe news of this victory came; for, if the Merri-mack had been left free to enter New York harbor, itmight have destroyed every wooden vessel in general substitution of iron vessels for wooden, inthe navies of the world, may be said to have followedfrom this contest. While these things were going on, by land and water,in Virginia, there were very important events happen-ing elsewhere in the war. An expedition
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