. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . Her bold eommander, T. A. , in an effort to grapple with the Confederate ramTennessee in Mobile Bay, ran through the line of torpedoes and lost his ship, which had fired the firsttwo guns in Farraguts brilliant battle. Ericsson did not approve of the principle of the double-turretedmonitor. In the Saugus is well exemplified his principle of mounting guns in such a manner tliat theycould be brought to bear in any direction. This object was defeated somewhat in the double-turretedtype, since each turret masked a considerable
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . Her bold eommander, T. A. , in an effort to grapple with the Confederate ramTennessee in Mobile Bay, ran through the line of torpedoes and lost his ship, which had fired the firsttwo guns in Farraguts brilliant battle. Ericsson did not approve of the principle of the double-turretedmonitor. In the Saugus is well exemplified his principle of mounting guns in such a manner tliat theycould be brought to bear in any direction. This object was defeated somewhat in the double-turretedtype, since each turret masked a considerable angle of fire of the other. The Saugus, together with theTecumseh and Canonicus and the Onondaga, served in the .six-hour action with Battery Dantzlerand the Confederate vessels in the James River, June 21, 186-1. Again on August 13th .she locked hornswith the Confederate fleet at Dutch Gap. She was actively engaged on the James and the Appomattoxand took part in the fall of Fort Fisher, the event that marked the beginning of the last year of the war. [E-9]. THE LATEST TYPE OF IRON SEA-ELEPHANT IX 1864 After having steadily planned and built monitors of increasing efficiency during the war, the Xavy Department finally turned its at-tention to the production of a double-turreted ocean cruiser of this ty-pe. The Onondaga was one of the first to be the picture she is seen lying in the James River. There, near Howletts, she had steamed into her first action, June 21, 1864, withother Federal vessels engaging Battery Dantzler, the ram Virginia, and the other Confederate vessels that were guarding Onondaga continued to participate in the closing operations of the navy on the James. Of this class of double-turreted monitorsthe Monadnock and the Miantonomoh startled the world after the war was over. Foreign and domestic skeptics maintainedthat Gusta^•^ls Vasa Fox, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, who had earnestly advocated the construction of monitors while
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