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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Merrimac. (search)
Merrimac. See monitor and Merrimac.
George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade), chapter 4 (search)
s. There is no reason we should not have had the Cumberland iron-clad, as the Merrimac has been prepared by them. The loss of two such vessels as the Cumberland andve them out. As I understand, the difficulty is that, owing to the fear of the Merrimac, the gunboats cannot leave Fortress Monroe to ascend the York River and take t however, the Navy have a plan, by which they are confident they will sink the Merrimac, if she gives them a fair chance, in which I trust they may succeed. camp gons. It has been surmised that we are kept here because they are fearful the Merrimac may run the gauntlet at Fortress Monroe, in which case they could pen McClella If Banks and Fremont unite, they will be strong enough. The papers say the Merrimac is ready to come out again; which I think is the best thing that can happen, ang the enemy's works in flank and rear, which now we cannot do for fear of the Merrimac. camp opposite Fredericksburg, April 30, 1862. We arrived here yesterd
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 81 (search)
ver Gosport Navy-yard. All that is now spared will then be so much gained! The Secessionists are excessively chagrined by this movement. The vessels were sunk in the entrance of the harbor expressly to catch the Cumberland and other valuable ships of war. The act was done by Gov. Letcher's order; and the despatch to Richmond, announcing the execution of the scheme, exultingly proclaimed: Thus have we secured for Virginia three of the best ships of the Navy --alluding to the Cumberland, Merrimac, and Pennsylvania. But they have lost all, and ten millions of dollars' worth of property besides. The Cumberland has been piloted successfully between the seven sunken vessels, and now floats proudly in front of Fort Monroe, with her great war guns thrust far out of her sides, as if hungering and hunting for prey. It will be a hard thing for Norfolk and Portsmouth to fill their harbors with ships while she lies here in the gateway. As usual when a set of people are foiled, the offi
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 125 (search)
wind turned! The winds of Heaven turned, and stayed the spread of the devouring element. The same wind that kind Heaven sent to keep off the fleet at Charleston till Sumter was reduced, came to the relief of Norfolk at the critical moment. Providence was signally on our side. They attempted to blow up the Dock, the most expensive one on the continent — but there was a break in the train they had laid, and it failed. They attempted to burn down the old Pennsylvania, Germantown, and the Merrimac. They set the match, while they endeavored to get out of the way of their intended destruction; but the vessels sunk before the fire caught — another remarkable instance of the interposition of Providence on our behalf, and the strongest evidence of our rectitude. We were right at first, are right now, and shall keep ourselves right to the end. What is to take place before the end, I know not. A threatening war is upon us, made by those who have no regard for right! We fight for our ho
Alfred Roman, The military operations of General Beauregard in the war between the states, 1861 to 1865, Chapter 23: (search)
ron-clad whose name has just been mentioned. The manner in which she was saved from destruction, completed, and officered has already been described. The feats she performed under her dauntless commander, Captain Isaac N. Brown, who, upon General Beauregard's demand for an able officer, was judiciously selected by the Hon. Mr. Mallory, Secretary of the Navy, are deserving of enthusiastic praise; the more so, since Commodore Lynch, after inspection, said of her, she is very inferior to the Merrimac in every particular; the iron with which she is covered is worn and indifferent, taken from a railroad track, and is poorly secured to the vessel; boiler iron on stern and counter; her smoke-stack of sheet iron. See Captain C. W. Reid's Reminiscences of the Confederate States Navy, vol. i. No. 5 of the Southern Historical Society Papers, for May, 1876. Captain Reid was one of the officers of the Arkansas, and it was he who, by order of Commodore Lynch, forwarded to the Secretary of War
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), A. (search)
means of propulsion. The gun-deck was nearly level with the water-line, and ports were cut in the sloping sides. The external appearance of this floating battery seems to have been very similar to that of the confederate Virginia, formerly the Merrimac, or some of our Western iron-clads. Copper or iron was proposed as a covering for the exposed portion. It does not appear that a vessel was ever actually constructed on Gregg's plan, but the invention is interesting as embodying some of the fee casemate each gun may be brought to bear simultaneously on the same object. Captain Ericsson designed the Monitor class of vessels in 1854, though the idea seems to have lain dormant till the times were propitious. The Monitor attacked the Merrimac March 9, 1862, and, on the 11th of May following, the latter committed suicide. The revolving turret was invented by T. R. Timby, and was patented by him in 1862. Captain Coles introduced a modification into the British navy, and was lost when
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), I. (search)
ates, breaking joints. The turret amidships was a round box of iron, built up of inch plates to 20 feet in diameter, 9 inches thick, and 9 feet high, with a grating or covering of railway bars. It contained two 11-inch guns. Her defeat of the Merrimac in Hampton Roads, March 9, 1863, rendered this little craft historic. She foundered in a storm, off Hatteras, December 31, 1862. See monitor. See also armorplating, p. 152. The Ironsides, completed at Philadelphia in 1862, was the only formne, cut down to near the water-line, plated with 4 1/2 inches of iron, and has three turrets, 11 inches thick, each carrying two 15-inch guns. She was only used for harbor defence, being found to roll so much as to be almost unseaworthy. The Merrimac was a United States wooden ship-of-the-line, and was set on fire at the Norfolk Navy Yard when that place was abandoned at the breaking out of the war. The hull was raised by the Confederates, and a false deck put on, above which an iron-clad fo
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), M. (search)
. The guns and turret rested on a post or pivot amidships, which supported the whole weight, and was turned by the engines. The boilers and engines were aft, leaving the forward part of the hold for quarters for the crew and storage of ammunition. The pilot-house was forward, and had lookout-holes for the steersman or commander. (See also Plate IV., opposite page 150.) She was described by the Southern journals as a black Yankee cheese-box on a raft. The engagement of the Monitor and Merrimac in Hampton Roads, March 9, 1862, was an event of history, and need only be mentioned here as having decided the fate of wooden vessels for naval contests. At that time the Monitor undoubtedly proved herself the most formidable craft afloat. Subsequent engagements with shore batteries pointed out a few defects in construction, the worst one being the location of the pilot-house forward of the turret, interfering with the pointing of the guns in that direction. In subsequent monitors
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), R. (search)
duction of armor-plating the use of the ram has been revived in modern warfare. The first effective use made of it was by the Confederate Virginia, the captured Merrimac, sinking the United States ships Cumberland and Saratoga, in Hampton Roads, March 9, 1862. In the naval engagement at Lissa, in July, 1862, the Austrian admirntended for a man-of-war, and was put together in a most stanch and substantial manner. Her length was about 180 feet. In form she was a modification of the old Merrimac Her armor consisted of 2 1/2-inch iron in bars 8 inches wide crossing one another and bolted down with 1 3/4-inch bolts, making five inches of solid iron. This sed and bolted together, forming a close lattice-work above her gunners and affording ventilation while in action. The sides were inclined like those of the old Merrimac, and through them, in the fight with our fleet, no ball succeeded in penetrating. Her ports, of which there were two on either side, and one fore and aft, were
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories, Delaware Volunteers. (search)
Dept. of Virginia, to May, 1862. 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, Dept. of Virginia, to July, 1862. Weber's Brigade, Division at Suffolk, Va., 7th Army Corps, Dept. of Virginia, to September, 1862. 3rd Brigade, 3rd Division, 2nd Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, to May, 1863. 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 2nd Army Corps, to March, 1864. 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, 2nd Army Corps, to July, 1865. Service. Duty at Camp Hamilton, Va., till May, 1862. Engagement between Monitor and Merrimac in Hampton Roads, Va., March 8-9, 1862. Expedition to Norfolk May 9-10. Occupation of Norfolk May 10, and duty at Norfolk, Portsmouth and Suffolk till September 8. Moved to Washington, D. C., thence to Antietam, Md., September 8-16. Battle of Antietam, Md., September 16-17. Moved to Harper's Ferry, W. Va., September 22, and duty there till October 30. Reconnoissance. to Charlestown October 16-17. Advance up Loudon Valley and movement to Falmouth, Va., October 30-Novembe
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