. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . of force and resistance do not favor yourenterprise. Chance, therefore, can alone save you. impair thtrir fitness to fight other battles. Itwill be recollected that the Wcchawkcii, com-manded by the late Admiral John Rodgers,defeated and captured the Confederate ramAtlanta, in Warsaw Sound, June 17, 1863,ten weeks after the battle of Charleston;consequently, previous to the engagements inwhich this monitor participated, as reportedby Admiral Dahlgren. The sjjlendid victoryin Warsaw Sound did not attract much atten- of twenty-two degrees mean
. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . of force and resistance do not favor yourenterprise. Chance, therefore, can alone save you. impair thtrir fitness to fight other battles. Itwill be recollected that the Wcchawkcii, com-manded by the late Admiral John Rodgers,defeated and captured the Confederate ramAtlanta, in Warsaw Sound, June 17, 1863,ten weeks after the battle of Charleston;consequently, previous to the engagements inwhich this monitor participated, as reportedby Admiral Dahlgren. The sjjlendid victoryin Warsaw Sound did not attract much atten- of twenty-two degrees means that, independ-ent of deflection, the shot must pass throughnearly five feet of obstruction, — namely,^eleven inches of iron and four feet of wood.;Rodgerss victory in Warsaw Sound, therefore,!proved that the four-and-a-half-inch vertical!l^lating of the magnificent Wajrior of ninelthousand tons — the pride of the British Admi-iralty — would present a mere pasteboard pro-:tection against the fifteen-inch monitor TllANSVERSe »ECTIOK. » AS ) — MDMIT I Kl) TO IHF, ( LINK OK ITS UIJVOLVING SEMI-SIIIERICAL irilF. 1 IAKI OF 1854. ; THE MONITORS. 297 The destruction of the Confederate priva-teer Nashville by the Moniauk, February28, 1863, also calls for a brief notice. Theexpedient by which this well-appointed priva-teer was destroyed, just on the eve of com-mencing a series of depredations in imitationof the Alabama, must be regarded as a featwhich has no parallel in naval annals. Thecommander of the Montauk, the presentAdmiral Worden, having received stringentorders to prevent the Nashville from going tosea, devised a plan for destroying the privateer(then occupying a safe position beyond a tor-pedo obstruction on the Ogeechee River), bymeans of the fifteen-inch shells which formedpart of his equipment; but in order to getnear enough for effective shelling, he wascompelled to take up a position under theguns
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