. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . f am so much in the habit of estimating forceand resistance that I cannot feel sanguine of you succeed, it will not be a mechanical consequenceof your marvelous vessels, but because you are mar-velously fortunate. The most I dare hope is, that thecontest will end without the loss of that prestige whichyour iron-clads have conferred on the nation single shot may sink a ship, while a hundred roundscannot silence a fort, as you have proved on theOgeec
. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . f am so much in the habit of estimating forceand resistance that I cannot feel sanguine of you succeed, it will not be a mechanical consequenceof your marvelous vessels, but because you are mar-velously fortunate. The most I dare hope is, that thecontest will end without the loss of that prestige whichyour iron-clads have conferred on the nation single shot may sink a ship, while a hundred roundscannot silence a fort, as you have proved on theOgeechee. The immutable laws of force and resistancedo not favor your enterprise. Chance, therefore, canalone save you. The discomfiture of the marvelous vesselsbefore Charleston, however, did not impair theirfitness to fight other battles. It will be recollectedthat the Weehawken, commanded by the late Ad-miral John Rodgers, defeated and captured theConfederate ram Atlanta, in Wassaw Sound, June17th, 1863, ten weeks after the battle of Charles-ton, consequently previous to the engagements in THE EARLY MONITORS. 3. SECTION OF THE HULL OF A SEA-GOING MONITOR. The cut represents a transverse section through the center-line of the turret and pilot-house of the Montauk andother sea-going vessels of the monitor type. For an account, of the original Mon itor, see Vol. I., p. 730. which this monitor participated, as reported byAdmiralDahlgren. ThesplendidvictoryinWassawSound did not attract much attention in the UnitedStates, while in the European maritime countriesit was looked upon as an event of the highest im-portance, since it established the fact, practically,that armor-plating of the same thickness as that ofLa Gloi/re and the Warrior could be readily pierced,even when placed at an inclination of only twenty-nine degrees to the horizon. Moreover, the shotfrom the Weehawken struck at an angle of fiftydegrees to the line of keel, thereby generating acompound angle, causing the line of
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