. The library of historic characters and famous events of all nations and all ages. . She fired, all told, during the fight, forty-one shots,taking her time, about one fire in six minutes, and any threeof them, properly aimed, would have sunk us, and yet thenearest shot to the water-line was over four feet. ... Inshort, considering that at noon on March 8, 1862, the Moni-tor was, by immense odds, the most formidable vessel-of-waron this planet, and that our ship was comparatively a ship ofglass ; and that, doing us no harm and wholly unharmed her-self, after four mortal hours of battle,
. The library of historic characters and famous events of all nations and all ages. . She fired, all told, during the fight, forty-one shots,taking her time, about one fire in six minutes, and any threeof them, properly aimed, would have sunk us, and yet thenearest shot to the water-line was over four feet. ... Inshort, considering that at noon on March 8, 1862, the Moni-tor was, by immense odds, the most formidable vessel-of-waron this planet, and that our ship was comparatively a ship ofglass ; and that, doing us no harm and wholly unharmed her-self, after four mortal hours of battle, she runs away and givesup the fight, it is impossible to conceive in what manner shecould have been more inefficiently fought.—W. Norris. Note.—It remains, however, to state that the Merrimac,being crippled and unmanageable, was sunk at Norfolk a fewweeks afterward, to be thenceforth remembered only as theantagonist of the Monitor, whereas the latter is world-famed as the first floating-battery which, besides saving theFederal fleet, revolutionized the navies of the world!. ,||||llllllllll«B„,uiiraiiiiiiiiiXjjSi
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