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required, could have been carried down the rivers to her without the slightest difficulty or danger. So the awful blunder of going up to Norfolk, where she could only come out at high water, and permitting the enemy to ascend the James river unmolested, cannot be justified or excused by falsely accusing the pilots of deception. The order from the Secretary of the Navy directed that the "Virginia" should afford protection to the James river, as well as to Norfolk; and this order Commodore Tatnall Disobeyed by going up to Norfolk and leaving the James river Entirely open and Exposed to the enemy! And even when the "Virginia" was not at the Navy-Yard she lay in the Elizabeth river just below Craney Island, instead of lying in the mouth of the James river, where she protected both Richmond and Norfolk. We now come to the assertion where Commodore Tatnall says, "The pilots had assured me that they could take the ship, with a draught of eighteen feet, to within forty miles of Richm