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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 27. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.34 (search)
acramento mounted two eleven-inch guns, two nine-inch guns, and one 60-pound rifle. The Stonewall carried a 300-pound Armstrong rifle in her forward turret, and two 70-pound Armstrongs in her stern turret, that being her entire armament. On March 24th, the Stonewall steamed out of the harbor in plain sight of the enemy, but, to the surprise of Captain Page, who had expected an engagement, they declined this challenge. For the the failure on the part of Commodore Craven to accept this gage ked men from the Florida, waiting there for him, another attempt to strike a blow at Port Royal, which was then supposed to be the base of General Sherman's advance through South Carolina. Vexatious delays detained the Stonewall at Ferrol until March 24, when Page got to sea. The United States ships Niagara and Sacramento had manifested every purpose to follow and attack the Stonewall when she left Ferrol. The Niagara was a large, powerful frigate, mounting ten 150-pounder Parrot rifled gun