. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . CAPTAIN FRANKLIN BUCHANAN, C. S. N., AND CAPTAIN JOSIAH TATTNALL, C. S. N.,COMMANDING THE VIRGINIA (MERRIMAC) It was a task of surpassing difBculty and danger that confronted Captain Buchanan when tlie Virginia sliipped heranchors on March 8, 186^2, and steamed down Elizabeth River to fight a fleet of the most powerful line-of-battle shipsin the Federal navy, lying imder the gims of formidable land batteries. The \irginias trial trip was this voyageinto imminent battle; not one of her gims had been fired; her crew, volunteers from
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . CAPTAIN FRANKLIN BUCHANAN, C. S. N., AND CAPTAIN JOSIAH TATTNALL, C. S. N.,COMMANDING THE VIRGINIA (MERRIMAC) It was a task of surpassing difBculty and danger that confronted Captain Buchanan when tlie Virginia sliipped heranchors on March 8, 186^2, and steamed down Elizabeth River to fight a fleet of the most powerful line-of-battle shipsin the Federal navy, lying imder the gims of formidable land batteries. The \irginias trial trip was this voyageinto imminent battle; not one of her gims had been fired; her crew, volunteers from the Confederate army, were strangersto one another and to their officers; they had never even had a practice drill together. The vessel lay too low in the water,and her faulty engines gave her a speed of but five knots, making maneuvering in the narrow channel exceedingly Captain Buchanan, who had risen from a sick-bed to take his command, flinched for none of this—nor for the factthat his own brother, McKean, was paymaster on the Congress. I
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