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    The Monitor and the Merrimac Both sides of the story
    The Monitor and the Merrimac Both sides of the story
    The Monitor and the Merrimac Both sides of the story
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    The Monitor and the Merrimac Both sides of the story

    By Eugene Winslow Watson, Samuel Dana Greene, John Lorimer Worden and H. Ashton Ramsay

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    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      The Monitor and the Merrimac Both sides of the story - Eugene Winslow Watson

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      Title: The Monitor and the Merrimac

      Both sides of the story

      Author: J. L. Worden et al.

      Release Date: February 15, 2008 [EBook #24612]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE MONITOR AND THE MERRIMAC ***

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      THE MONITOR THE MERRIMAC

      THE ENCOUNTER AT SHORT RANGE, MARCH 9, 1862.

      THE MONITOR

      AND

      THE MERRIMAC

      BOTH SIDES OF THE STORY

      TOLD BY

      LIEUT. J.L. WORDEN, U.S.N.

      LIEUT. GREENE, U.S.N.

      OF THE MONITOR

      AND

      H. ASHTON RAMSAY, C.S.N.

      CHIEF ENGINEER OF THE MERRIMAC

      ILLUSTRATED

      HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS

      NEW YORK AND LONDON

      MCMXII

      COPYRIGHT, 1912, BY HARPER & BROTHERS

      PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

      PUBLISHED MARCH, 1912

      CONTENTS

      Introduction

      The Monitor and the Merrimac

      Told by Lieutenant Worden and Lieutenant S.D. Greene of the Monitor

      The Merrimac and the Monitor

      Told by H. Ashton Ramsay, Major C.S.A.,

      Chief Engineer of the Merrimac

      The Last of the Monitor

      By an eye-witness, Rear-Admiral E.W. Watson, U.S.N.

      INTRODUCTION

      This is the first-hand story of what was done and seen and felt on each side in the battle of the Monitor and the Merrimac. The actual experiences on both vessels are pictured, in one case by the commander of the Monitor, then a lieutenant, and the next in rank, Lieutenant Greene, and in the other by Chief-Engineer Ramsay of the Merrimac. Clearly such a record of personal experiences has a place by itself in the literature of the subject.

      It is quite unnecessary to dwell upon the various controversies which this battle has involved. As to the first use of armor, we know that France experimented with floating armored batteries in the Crimean War, and England had armored ships before 1862. As to the invention of the movable turret, which has been a bone of contention, the pages of Colonel Church's Life of John Ericsson and other books are open to the curious. The struggle of Ericsson to obtain official recognition, the raising of money, the hasty equipment of the Monitor, and the restraining orders under which she fought form a story supplementary to the battle, but of peculiar interest. The Monitor was ordered to act on the defensive. It was her mission first to protect the wooden ships. That explains certain misconceptions of her cautious attitude. And the fact that the powder charges for her Dahlgren guns were officially limited to fifteen pounds, although thirty and even fifty pounds were used with safety afterward, invites speculation upon the results if she had fought with a free hand.

      But the main result was reached. The Union fleet was saved. The career of the Merrimac was checked. No Union vessel was destroyed after the Monitor appeared. It seems proper to note these facts here, in view of the fact that Mr. Ramsay's fresh and striking story of the Merrimac, which is presented for the first time, enters upon the details of the battle more fully than the narrative of Lieutenant Worden and Lieutenant Greene. Fortunately the discussion has become academic in the half-century that has passed since Southern cheers over

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