. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . close in shore and within thebar at Hampton, the commoflore ordered Lieu- prizes under the stem of the English corvetteRinaldo, Captain Hewitt (now an admiralcommanding the English fleet in the EastIndies and Red Sea), then at anchor in theRoads, she was enthusiastically cheered. Weremained below all day and at night returnedand anchored off Sewalls Point. A few days later we went down again towithin gun-shot of the Rip-Raps, and ex-changed a few rounds with the fort, hopingthat the Monitor o\\\A come out from her lairinto open water. Had sh
. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . close in shore and within thebar at Hampton, the commoflore ordered Lieu- prizes under the stem of the English corvetteRinaldo, Captain Hewitt (now an admiralcommanding the English fleet in the EastIndies and Red Sea), then at anchor in theRoads, she was enthusiastically cheered. Weremained below all day and at night returnedand anchored off Sewalls Point. A few days later we went down again towithin gun-shot of the Rip-Raps, and ex-changed a few rounds with the fort, hopingthat the Monitor o\\\A come out from her lairinto open water. Had she done so, a deter-mined effort would have been made to carryher by boarding. Four small gun-boats wereready, each of which had its crew dividedinto parties for the performance of certainduties after getting on board. Some were totry to wedge the turret, some to cover thepilot-house and all the openings with tarpau-lins, others to scale with ladders the turretand smoke-stack, using shells, hand-grenades,etc. Even if but two of the gun-boats sue-. ESCAPE OF THE CREW OF THE CONGRESS. 750 THE FIRST FIGHT OF IRON-CLADS.
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