. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . ips: wehave now two, these two being the Warriorand her sister Ironside. There is not now aship in the English navy apart from thesetwo that it would not be madness to trust toan engagement with that little Monitor^ TheAdmiralty at once proceeded to reconstructthe navy, cutting down a nmnber of their lar-gest ships and converting them into turret orbroadside iron-clads. The same results wereproduced in France, which had but one sea-going iron-clad, La Gloire,and this one, like the Warrior,was only protected Emperor Napoleonprom
. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . ips: wehave now two, these two being the Warriorand her sister Ironside. There is not now aship in the English navy apart from thesetwo that it would not be madness to trust toan engagement with that little Monitor^ TheAdmiralty at once proceeded to reconstructthe navy, cutting down a nmnber of their lar-gest ships and converting them into turret orbroadside iron-clads. The same results wereproduced in France, which had but one sea-going iron-clad, La Gloire,and this one, like the Warrior,was only protected Emperor Napoleonpromptly appointed a com-mission to devise plans forrebuilding his navy. And sowith all the maritime this race the United Statestook the lead, and at theclose of the war led all theothers in the numbers and effi-ciency of its iron-clad fleet. Itis true that all the great pow-ers had already experimentedwith vessels partly armored,but very few were convincedof their utility, and none hadbeen tried by the crucial_ test of battle, if we except a. THE FIRST FIGHT OF IRON-CLADS. 739 few floating batteries, thinly clad, used duringthe Crimean War. In the spring of 1861 Norfolk and its largenaval establishment had b{;en hurriedly aban-doned by the Federals, why or wherefore noone could tell. It is within two miles ofFortress Monroe, then held by a large forceof regulars. A few companies of these, witha single frigate, could have occupied andcommanded the town and navy-yard, andhave kept the channel open. However, a yearlater, it was as quickly evacuated by the Con-federates, and almost with as little of this I will speak later. The yard was abandoned to a few volun-teers, after it was partly destroyed, and a large to Secretary Mallory to raise and rebuild thisship as an iron-clad. His plans were ap-proved, and orders were given to carry themout. She was raised and cut down to the oldberth-deck. Both ends for seventy feet werecovered over, and when the ship was in figh
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