Abraham Lincoln : a history . checked their devoted heroism. With mencut down at their guns, and the ship settling to her Be°OTt ^e un(^er their feet, they answered broadside withRebellion broadside, shot with shot. When the water in the voi°iv hold rose and drowned the forward magazine, they °p:U26e9n 9 still passed up powder from the one aft. The lastgun was fired when the sea was already runninginto the muzzle of the gun beside it. After three-quarters of an hour of such fighting the gallantship, with the dead and wounded of her crew, andsome even of her heroic defenders who clung dog-gedly
Abraham Lincoln : a history . checked their devoted heroism. With mencut down at their guns, and the ship settling to her Be°OTt ^e un(^er their feet, they answered broadside withRebellion broadside, shot with shot. When the water in the voi°iv hold rose and drowned the forward magazine, they °p:U26e9n 9 still passed up powder from the one aft. The lastgun was fired when the sea was already runninginto the muzzle of the gun beside it. After three-quarters of an hour of such fighting the gallantship, with the dead and wounded of her crew, andsome even of her heroic defenders who clung dog-gedly to their posts after orders had been given to Mi862h8, save themselves, went to the bottom in fifty feetof water with the stars and stripes still flying fromher masthead. Her antagonist did not come from JDThem the encounter entirely unharmed. The blow whichMagazine? sunk the Cumberland wrenched off her iron prow D6C 1874 and slightly twisted her stem. The Cumberlandssolid shot broke the muzzles of two of her guns. monitor and merrimac 225 and killed two of her men, wounding nineteen ch. xiiiothers. Ebb tide having begun, the Merrimac steamed ashort distance up stream to turn, and then attackedthe Congress which lay several hundred yards eastof the Cumberland. The Congress, seeing the fateof her companion, slipped her cable, and by usingher sails, and with the help of a tug, ran ashore andgrounded where the iron monster could not the precaution was futile. The Merrimac, re-turning, took up a raking position off her quarterat two cables length, soon silenced the few gunsthat bore upon her, and after an hours fight,creating frightful carnage, the commander havingbeen killed and the ship set on fire in severalplaces, the Congress struck her colors. Confed-erate officers charge that fire was again openedfrom the Congress after surrender, which Unionofficers deny. The conflict of assertion is probablyexplained by the circumstance that fire was openedupon the re
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