. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . MEN ON THE MONITOR WHO FOUGHT WITH WORDEN Here on the deck of theMonitor sit some of themen who held up the hands ofLieutenant Worden in thegreat fight with the the picture, taken in July,1862, only four months after-ward, one of the nine famousdents on the turret are \ required courage not only tofight in the Monitor for tin-first time but to embark on her atall, for she was a strange amiimtried invention at whichmany high authorities shooktheir heads. But during thebattle, amid all the difficultiesof breakdow
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . MEN ON THE MONITOR WHO FOUGHT WITH WORDEN Here on the deck of theMonitor sit some of themen who held up the hands ofLieutenant Worden in thegreat fight with the the picture, taken in July,1862, only four months after-ward, one of the nine famousdents on the turret are \ required courage not only tofight in the Monitor for tin-first time but to embark on her atall, for she was a strange amiimtried invention at whichmany high authorities shooktheir heads. But during thebattle, amid all the difficultiesof breakdowns by the new un-tried machinery, Lieutenant Greene coolly directed hismen, who kept up a fire ofremarkable accuracy. Twentyof the forty-one 11-incIi shotfired from the Monitor tookeffect, more or less, on the ironplates of the Virginia. The. ADMIRAL J. L. WORDEN Monitor was struck ninetimes on her turret, twice onthe pilot-house, thrice on thedeck, and eight times on theside. While Greene was fight-ing noljly in the turret, Wonienwith the helmsman in the pilot-house was bravely maneuver-ing his vessel and seeking toram his huge antagonist. Twicehe almost succeeded and bothtimes Greenes guns were usedon the Virginia at point-blank range with telling the close of the actionWorden was blinded bj a shellstriking near one of the peep-holes in the pilot-house andthe command devolved uponGreene. Worden, even in hisagony of pain while the doctorwas attending his injuries, askedconstantly about the progress ofthe battle: and when told thatthe Minnesota was safe, hesaid, Then I can die happy.
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