A Comprehensive Sketch of the Merrimac and Monitor Naval Battle
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Excerpt from A Comprehensive Sketch of the Merrimac and Monitor Naval Battle: Giving an Accurate Account of the Most Important Naval Engagement in the Annals of War The furious battle in Hampton Roads in the spring of 1862. which began with the sinking of the Cumberland, the burning of the Congress, the setting on fire of live Ninnetoso, and the rout of the Roanoke and St. Lawrence - all Federal men-of-war - by the great iron-clad Merrimae in a single afternoon, and ended with the gallant attack of the tiny Monitor upon the big floating battery the next morning, is one of the most momentous and remarkable naval engagements known in history. None of the features of war that make battles glorious were wanting in this sanguinary conflict upon the shallow strait which on that spring morning separated the camp of the Northern troops from the white tents and grim batteries of the soldiers of the South. The tale of that day abounds in deeds of valor and heroic achievement from the hour the Cumberland sank with guns roaring and colors flying until the brave commander of the Monitor, with his eyes blinded from the effects of the enemy´s shot, gave orders from the couch where he lay to his gallant comrades about him. But the great and lasting issue of the battle between the Merrimac and the Monitor is the fact that it revolutionised the Navies of the world. This was the first light of lion-clad vessels, and its effect was to pronounce the doom of line-of-battle ships, and to demonstrate that rams and iron-clads were in future to decide all naval warfare. Another remarkable feature of this combat to prove the hardihood and gallantry of the men engaged, is the circumstance that both of the vessels were in a great measure mere experiments, and upon experimental trips when they met and fought, and that to the danger from fire and sword was added to one of them, the Monitor, the peril of foundering at sea. Before the summer of 1861 had passed, both sides engaged in the fratricidal struggle of North against South had awakened to a realization of the stubbornness of the conflict, and knew that the combat would belong and bitter. All thoughts of an early cessation of hostilities had been put aside, and the entire country was under tribute to furnish brains, men and money for an extended and hazardous campaign. Three years before, naval officers and marine constructors had been much interested in the successful application of armor-plating to the sleam-ftigate La Ghire of the fleet of Napoleon III., which was immediately followed by the Admiralty of England similarly filling out the Warrior and Ironsides. None of these iron-clad vessels had been tested in actual warfare, however, and it was therefore as an experiment that Lieutenant George M. Brooke, who had resigned from the United States Navy when the South seceded, suggested to Secretary-of-War Mallory of the Confctlciacy, that the frigate Merrimac. which had been burned and sunk at Norfolk when the Federal troops abandoned the Navy Yard, should be raised, re-built and plated with armor to be used against the wooden war vessels of the North in the coming spring. His plans were approved, and the work was at once begun in the Norfolk Navy Yard. Great pains were taken to keep all information concerning the fitting out of this iron-clad from the Navy Department of the North, but early in the fall news of the undertaking reached Washington. The Secretary of the Navy and his advisers had already been discussing the project of constructing iron-clad vessels for use against the South, and this news awakened them to a sense of the necessity of taking immediate action in the matter. Then John Ericsson laid the foundation of his fame. He bad been Studying the subject of armor plating ever since La Gioire had been thus protected, and he now laid his plans before Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles. Captain Ericsson´s id
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