. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . [ 1 i *> i 1 1 i. EVIEW5 CO. THE FIRST INLAND MONITOR—THE OZARK This hybrid-looking vessel was the first of the Federal attempts to adapt the monitor type of construction to the needs of the navyon the Western rivers. She was a cross between the Ericsson design (which she resembled in her turret and pilot-house) and theearly type of river gunboat, apparent in her hull, stacks, and upper works. Her armament consisted of two 11-inch smooth-bores inthe turret and a 12-pounder pivot-gun at the stern. Having joined Porters Mississipp
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . [ 1 i *> i 1 1 i. EVIEW5 CO. THE FIRST INLAND MONITOR—THE OZARK This hybrid-looking vessel was the first of the Federal attempts to adapt the monitor type of construction to the needs of the navyon the Western rivers. She was a cross between the Ericsson design (which she resembled in her turret and pilot-house) and theearly type of river gunboat, apparent in her hull, stacks, and upper works. Her armament consisted of two 11-inch smooth-bores inthe turret and a 12-pounder pivot-gun at the stern. Having joined Porters Mississippi squadron early in 1864, she was the last ofthe entrapped vessels to get free above the Falls at Alexandria, in the Red River expedition. Porter pronounced her turret all rightbut considered her hull too high out of water, and declared that she lacked three inches of iron plating on her fifteen inches of had discovered, in running the batteries at Vicksburg, that heavy logs, hung perpendicularly on the sides of his gunboats, pre-vented shot of heavy size from doing
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