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Title: The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Miller, Francis Trevelyan, 1877-1959 Lanier, Robert S. (Robert Sampson), 1880-
Subjects: United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Pictorial works United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865
Publisher: New York : Review of Reviews Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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to be an elephant on the hands of the Federal navy. Indeed, on her trial trip EricssonsMonitor came near foundering, and thus she finally met her end in a storm oflF Cape Hatteras, December 31, 18B2. Butbefore this, her faults of construction had been recognized and the Federal Navy Department hail undertaken the construc-tion of nine bigger and better monitors. In Charleston Harbor the monitors were hit an aggregate of 738 times, andproved conclusively their superior endurance. The Lehigh first made her appearance in the James on an expeditionand demonstration made up that river by Acting Kear-Admiral S. P. Lee in July, 1803. In September she was attachedto Admiral Dalilgrens fleet. From October 20th to November -1th, under Commander A. Bryson, she and the Pa-tapsco were assigned to the special duty of hammering Fort Sumter. On November 10, 1803, she ran aground onSullivans Island and was dangerously exposed to the guns of Fort Moultrie for five hours before she could be gotten cilf.
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Ground, l)ut always keeping herself between the Minnesotaand the vessel that had counted her as prey. In fear of run-ning am-ound. tlie Mcrrimac did not follow, and at about twooclock, turned her bow toward Sewells Point. It was a few minutes after noon when the Monitor madefor the shallow water, and Lieutenant Worden had beenstunned and almost blinded by the result of a shell striking thepilot-house. The Monitor did not run away, as Confederatepapers of the time averred, but as a Southern eye-witness put it: ^Iiicli lias been written and more said about tiiis celebrated fight—the first encounter between ironclads in tiie worlds history. Viewingit, as I did, at a distance of more tiian a mile, I will state tliat my im-pression at the time w^as that, after hammering away at each other forthree liours, and finding that the men were wearied out without makingmuch impression on eitlier side, both vessels had simultaneously drawnoff and decitled to call it a drawn battle. In Captain Van

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