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The Daily Dispatch: January 10, 1865., [Electronic resource], A Facetious editor. (search)
iron-clad ram Tennessee in Mobile bay must form one of the most remarkable chapters in naval warfare. It is no ordinary sort of sea monitor that could bear the concentrated attack of thirteen vessels of war, six of them iron-clad, with an armament of two hundred guns, and yet come out of the engagement with a few splinters detached from her inner casting to mark the damage in her interior. The Tennessee lay in the rear of our fleet after the forts had been passed on the morning of the 5th of August; and of fourteen vessels, at Admiral Farragut's disposal for the attack, all were perfectly sound and uninjured except the Tecumseh, which had been sunk by a torpedo, when the order was given shortly after 8 o'clock to bout ship and give battle to the ram. A signal was given to all the fleet not only to commence the attack with guns, but to run her down at full speed. The Monongahela, a steam frigate, not iron-clad, was the first to strike the Tennessee; but the shock, tremendous as it m