Home school of American history; embracing the growth and achievements of our country from the earliest days of discovery and settlement to the present eventful year .. . dy for the events of the mor-row. The Ilerrimac was promj^tlyon time the next morning, andwas accomj)anied by two gun-boats; but while steaming towardthe remaining Union vessels theMonitor darted out from behindthe Min7iesota and boldly advancedto meet her terrible silently approached eachother until within a hundredyards, when the Blonitor filled a shot, to Avhich the Merrimac replied. Thefiring was rapid fo
Home school of American history; embracing the growth and achievements of our country from the earliest days of discovery and settlement to the present eventful year .. . dy for the events of the mor-row. The Ilerrimac was promj^tlyon time the next morning, andwas accomj)anied by two gun-boats; but while steaming towardthe remaining Union vessels theMonitor darted out from behindthe Min7iesota and boldly advancedto meet her terrible silently approached eachother until within a hundredyards, when the Blonitor filled a shot, to Avhich the Merrimac replied. Thefiring was rapid for a time and then became slower, with the intervening^space varying from fifty yards to four times that distance. A number of the3Ierrhnacs shots struck the Monitors pilot-house and turret, the doing no-harm excejDt almost to deafen the men within. Most of the shells, however,missed or skipped over the low deck of the smaller boat. The latter was able to dodge the rushes of the larger craft and play allaround her, but the terrible pounding worked damage to both, the 3Ionitor suf-fering the most. The iron plate of the pilot-house was lifted by a shell, which. JOHN famous constructor of the Monitor. CAPTURE OF NEW ORLEANS. 315 blinded Lieutenant Worden, and so disabled him that he was forced to turnover the command to Lieutenant Green. Worden, who lived to become anadmiral, never fully recovered from his injuries. The firing, dodging, ramming,and fighting continued for four hours, but the 3Ierrimac was unable to disableher nimble antagonist, and slowly steamed back to Norfolk, while the 3Ionitorreturned to her former position, and was carefully kept in reserve by the govern-ment against future perils of a similar character. FATE OF THE MERRIMAC AND MONITOR. Neither of the vessels was permitted to do further service. Some monthslater, upon the evacuation of Norfolk, the Merrimac was blown \x\) to jareventher falling into the hands of the Unionists, and the Ilon
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