. Tom Strong, Lincoln's scout, a story of the United States in the times that tried men's souls . at times almost frantic. . He ranfrom room to room, sat down and jumped upafter writing a few words, swung his arms,and scolded and raved. Hay records that Stanton was fearfully stampeded. He saidthey would capture our fleet, take Fort ^Monroe,be in Washington before night. Without consulting the Secretary of theNavy, Stanton had some fifty canal-boats loadedwith stone and sent them to be sunk on KettleBottom Shoals, in the Potomac, to keep the Merrimac from reaching Washington. Thecanal-boats rea
. Tom Strong, Lincoln's scout, a story of the United States in the times that tried men's souls . at times almost frantic. . He ranfrom room to room, sat down and jumped upafter writing a few words, swung his arms,and scolded and raved. Hay records that Stanton was fearfully stampeded. He saidthey would capture our fleet, take Fort ^Monroe,be in Washington before night. Without consulting the Secretary of theNavy, Stanton had some fifty canal-boats loadedwith stone and sent them to be sunk on KettleBottom Shoals, in the Potomac, to keep the Merrimac from reaching Washington. Thecanal-boats reached the Shoals, but the order tosink them was countermanded by cooler were left in a long row, tied up to theriver bank. The three doomed ships at Hampton Roadssoon knew that at nine oclock of that fatefulnight there had steamed in from the ocean a 66 Tom Strong, Lincolns Scout Union iron-clad. Her coming, however, brought scant comfort. What is she Hke? asked the first captain to hear the news. * Like? Shes hke a cheese-box on a was not a bad description. She was the. THE BATTLE OF THE MONITOR AND THE MERRIMAC * Monitor, an unknown boat of an unknowntype that day, and on the morrow the most fa-mous fighting craft that ever sailed the was born of the brain of a Swedish-American, Capt. John Ericsson, whose statuestands in Battery Park, the southern tip of the Tom Strong, Lincolns Scout 67 metropolis, looking down to the ocean he savedfor freedoms cause. Lieut. A. L. Worden, commanding the Monitor, was soon in consultation with theother commanders. They scarcely tried to dis-guise their belief that he had merely broughtanother predestined victim. His ship was tiny,compared with the Merrimac. She was notbuilt to ram, as was her terrible guns were of a greater caliber, to be sure,than any wooden ship mounted, but there werebut two of them and they could be brought tobear only by revolving the Monitors turret,—a newfangled device in ever
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