Identifier: abrahamlincolnba01newy (find matches)
Title: Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War
Year: 1886 (1880s)
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Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Generals Generals
Publisher: (New York, N.Y.) : (The Century Co.)
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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uld have occupied andcommanded the town and navy-yard, andhave kept the channel open. However, a yearlater, it was as quickly evacuated by the Con-federates, and almost with as little reason.But of this I will speak later. The yard was abandoned to a few volun-teers, after it was partly destroyed, and a large to Secretary Mallory to raise and rebuild thisship as an iron-clad. His plans were ap-proved, and orders were given to carry themout. She was raised and cut down to the oldberth-deck. Both ends for seventy feet werecovered over, and when the ship was in fight-ing trim were just awash. On the midshipsection, one hundred and seventy feet inlength, was built at an angle of forty-five de-grees a roof of pitch-pine and oak, twenty-four inches thick, extending from the water-line to a height over the gun-deck of sevenfeet. Both ends of the shield were roundedso that the i)ivot-guns could be used as bowand stern chasers or quartering. Over thegun-deck was a light grating, making a prom-
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liUIiNlNG OF .1__VTE MERRI.MAC and THE NORIuLK number of ships were burnt. Among the spoilswere upward of twelve hundred heavy guns,which were scattered among Confederate for-tifications from the Potomac to the Missis-sippi. Among the ships burnt and sunk wasthe frigate Merrimac of thirty-five hundredtons and forty guns, afterward rechristenedthe llrgifiia, and so I will call her. Duringthe summer of 1861 Lieutenant George M.Brooke, an accomplished ofiftcer of the old navy,who with many others had resigned, proposed enade about twenty feet wide. The woodbacking was covered with iron plates, rolledat the Tredegar works at Richmond, twoinches thick and eight wide. The first tierwas put on horizontal, the second up anddown,— in all four inches, bolted throughthe wood-work and clinched inside. The i)rowwas of cast-iron, projecting four feet, and l)adlysecured, as events proved. The rudder andpropeller were entirely unprotected. The pilot-house was forward of the smoke-stack, and 740 THE

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