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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1. 2 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 2 0 Browse Search
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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., chapter 15.64 (search)
The loss of the monitor. by the courtesy of the soldiers' and sailors' historical Society, of Rhode Island, we are permitted to print the following interesting paper condensed from one of its pamphlets.-editors. Francis B. Butts, a survivor of the Monitor's ) Crew. At daybreak on the 29th of December, 1862, at Fort Monroe, the Monitor hove short her anchor, and by 10 o'clock in the forenoon she was under way for Charleston, South Carolina, in charge of Commander J. P. Bankhead. The Rhode Island, a powerful side-wheel steamer, was to be our convoy, and to hasten our speed she took us in tow with two long 12-inch hawsers. The weather was heavy with dark, stormy-looking clouds and a westerly wind. We passed out of the Roads and rounded Cape Henry, proceeding on our course with but little change in the weather up to the next day at noon, when the wind shifted to the south-south-west and increased to a gale. At 12 o'clock it was my trick at the lee wheel, and being a good han
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2, chapter 16 (search)
p. 660. — – Southern account. Boston Evening Journal, March 15, 1862, p. 4, col. 2. — – Watching the Merrimac. R. E. Colston, C. S. A. Century, vol. 29, p. 763. — – John Taylor Wood, lieutenant on the Merrimac. Century, vol. 29, p. 738. Monitor, U. S. ironclad, continued. Cruise of the, verses. Geo. M. Baker. Bivouac, vol. 3, p.341. —Last cruise of the. Continental, vol. 6, p. 46. — – Grenville M. Weeks. Atlantic, vol. 11, p. 366. —Loss of the, Dec. 30, 1862. Francis B. Butts. Century, vol. 31, p. 299. — – First despatches and comment. Boston Evening Journal, Jan. 5, 1863, p. 4, cols. 1, 6. — – Statement of an officer, with comment. Boston Evening Journal, Jan. 8, 1863, p. 4, cols. 1, 3. Monitors. Mail-clad steamers. E. H. Derby. Atlantic, vol. 8, p. 227. —Mechanics of modern naval warfare. Isaac Newton, assistant of Ericsson. North American Rev., vol. 103, p. 185. —New, building at various places. Boston Eve