Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Merrimac” in chapter 2, page 21 of The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South:

... the greatest obligations to a member of this House, a member from New York, who advanced the money and paid the entire expenses out of his own funds in order to get the Monitor built, which met the Merrimac in Hampton Roads. Mr. John A. Griswold, the gentleman alluded to, a wealthy iron-master, and one of the contractors for the Monitor, was then a member, and at the time this declaration was mad...
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