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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 13. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The Merrimac and the Monitor—Report of the Committee on Naval Affairs. (search)
me set forth in that report, with perhaps some additions, but in every case the vessel or vessels were either actually captured or destroyed, which was not the fact in the case before us. The new authorities cited are histories, where accounts of the naval engagement in Hampton Roads are evidently not made up from the official reports of the affair which we have, and yet none of them sustain the theory of the advocates of this bill. The History of the Civil War in America, by the Count of Paris, which is quoted, does not sustain the position claimed by the memorialists. In vol. 1, page 607, after describing the engagement, he says: The Virginia (Merrimac) had suffered from the engagement, but her injuries were of such a character as to admit of being promptly repaired. And again: The Federal naval authorities fully appreciated all the draw backs to the success of March the 9th, and in order to avert the damages of another attack from the enemy's iron-clad, they haste