. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . MAC and THE NORIuLK number of ships were burnt. Among the spoilswere upward of twelve hundred heavy guns,which were scattered among Confederate for-tifications from the Potomac to the Missis-sippi. Among the ships burnt and sunk wasthe frigate Merrimac of thirty-five hundredtons and forty guns, afterward rechristenedthe llrgifiia, and so I will call her. Duringthe summer of 1861 Lieutenant George , an accomplished ofiftcer of the old navy,who with many others had resigned, proposed enade about twenty feet wide. The woodbacking was co
. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . MAC and THE NORIuLK number of ships were burnt. Among the spoilswere upward of twelve hundred heavy guns,which were scattered among Confederate for-tifications from the Potomac to the Missis-sippi. Among the ships burnt and sunk wasthe frigate Merrimac of thirty-five hundredtons and forty guns, afterward rechristenedthe llrgifiia, and so I will call her. Duringthe summer of 1861 Lieutenant George , an accomplished ofiftcer of the old navy,who with many others had resigned, proposed enade about twenty feet wide. The woodbacking was covered with iron plates, rolledat the Tredegar works at Richmond, twoinches thick and eight wide. The first tierwas put on horizontal, the second up anddown,— in all four inches, bolted throughthe wood-work and clinched inside. The i)rowwas of cast-iron, projecting four feet, and l)adlysecured, as events proved. The rudder andpropeller were entirely unprotected. The pilot-house was forward of the smoke-stack, and 740 THE FIRST FIGHT OF KKMODFIINC, THE MLRMMAL AT 1 HFNORTOLIv NAV\ \ ) covered with the same thickness of iron asthe siiles. Her motive power was the samethat had always been in the ship. Both en-gines antl boilers had been condemned onher return from her last cruise, and wereradically defective. Of course, the fire andsinking had not improved them. We couldnot depend upon them six hours at a \ more ill-contrived or unreliable pair ofengines could only have been found in somevessels of the Inited States navy. Lieutenant Catesby ap was orderedto superintend the armament, and no morethoroughly com])etent officer could have beenselected. To his experience and skill as herordnance and executive officer was due thecharacter of her l)attery, which proved soefficient. It consisted of two seven-inch rifles,heavily reenforced around the breech withthree-inch steel bands, shrunk on; thesewere the first heavy guns so made, and werethe bow and ster
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