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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lourth Assistant Engineer, I\L T. Siinstrom; Captains Clerk, DanielToflTcy; Quartermaster, Icter Williams; (iunners Mate, Joseph Crown ; Boatswains Mate, John Stocking;and forty-two others — a total r)f fifty-eight souls.— S. I). (1. t For details respecting the invention of the Monitor, the reader is referred to a biographical paper onCaptain Ericsson by Colonel W. C. Church in this magazine for April, 1879. The origin of the name Monitoris given in the following letter to Gustavus V. Fox, Assistant Secretary of the Navy. (Ed.) : — Nkw York, January 20th, 1862.Sir: In accordance with your refpiest, I now submil for your approl)ation a name for the floating battery atGreen Point. The impregnable and aggressive character of this structure will admonish the leaders of the SouthernRel>eIlion that tne batteries on the banks of their rivers will no longer ))rescnt barriers to the entrance of theUnion forces. The iron-clad intruder will thus prove a severe monitor to those leaders.
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IN THE MONITOR TURRET. 755 to them the probable dangers ofthe passage to Hami)ton Roadsand the certainty of having im-portant service to perform afterarriving. The sailors resj)ondedenthusiastically, many more volun-teering than were required. Ofthe crew selected, Captain Wordensaid, in his official report of theengagement, A better one nonaval commander e\er had thehonor to command. We left New York in tow of thetug-boat Setli Low at 11 A. M. ofThursday, the 6th of March. Onthe following day a moderatebreeze was encountered, and it was at once evi-dent that the Monitor \\as untit for a sea-goingcraft. Nothing but the subsidence of the windprevented her from being shipwrecked beforeshe reached Hampton Road

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