. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . Right, Tail, REVJEw OF REVIEWS CO. THE NORFOLK NAVY-YARDWHERE THE VIRGINIA WAS BUILT When those two queer-looking craft—theMonitor and the Virginia (Merri-mac)—approached each other in HamptonRoads on Sunday morning, March 9, 1862,much more hung in the balance to be de-cided than the mere question of whichshould win. These were no foreign foesthat opposed each other, but men of the samerace, and the fighting-machines which theybrought into action epitomized the best judg-ment of men that had been trained in the samenavy. The fact t
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . Right, Tail, REVJEw OF REVIEWS CO. THE NORFOLK NAVY-YARDWHERE THE VIRGINIA WAS BUILT When those two queer-looking craft—theMonitor and the Virginia (Merri-mac)—approached each other in HamptonRoads on Sunday morning, March 9, 1862,much more hung in the balance to be de-cided than the mere question of whichshould win. These were no foreign foesthat opposed each other, but men of the samerace, and the fighting-machines which theybrought into action epitomized the best judg-ment of men that had been trained in the samenavy. The fact that ironclad vessels wereto engage for the first time in a momentousconflict was of minor significance. Europehad already taken a long step toward theemployment of armor plate; not its place innaval warfare, but the manner in which itwas to be given effectiveness by Americanbrains, was at stake. Of these two new ar-mored knights of the sea, the Virginia. JOIIiX M. BROOKE, C. S. N. DESIGNER OF THE VIRGINIAS ARMAMENT (the first to be begun) was the more directlythe result of native thought and hull was all that was left of one of thegallant old fighting frigates built soon afterthe Inited States became a nation. Themen who planned and superintended her con-struction were skilled oflScers of the old navy—John L. Porter and William P. armament was prepared by anotherveteran, Jolm M. Brooke, and consisted inpart of his own invention, the Brooke rifledgun. She was built at a national navy-yardat Norfolk; and had this not fallen into thehands of the Confederates at the beginningof the war, the remodeled Merrimacwould never have appeared in HamptonRoads to teach the wooden ships of the oldnavy the bitter lesson that their usefulnesswas on the wane and soon to be at an era of the modem warship had come.
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