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Port Royal, Va. (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.1
arcely repress a smile in reading the Federal telegrams of that day. Welles's Scare. Secretary Welles of the United States Navy, reports Mr. Stanton, Secretary of War, as saying in a Cabinet meeting, called in consequence of the destruction of the Cumberland and Congress on March 8th: The Merrimac will change the whole character of the war. She will destroy seriatim every naval vessel. She will lay all cities of the seaboard under contribution. I shall immediately recall Burnside. Port Royal must be abandoned. I will notify the Governors of States, and the municipal authorities in the North to take instant measures to protect their harbors. He had no doubt but that the Merrimac was at this moment on her way to Washington, and not unlikely we shall have a shell or cannon-ball from one of her guns in the White House before we leave this room. On March 9th Mr. Stanton telegraphed the Governors of New York, Massachusetts and Maine to protect their harbors with large timber raf
Newport (Maine, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.1
eir harbors. He had no doubt but that the Merrimac was at this moment on her way to Washington, and not unlikely we shall have a shell or cannon-ball from one of her guns in the White House before we leave this room. On March 9th Mr. Stanton telegraphed the Governors of New York, Massachusetts and Maine to protect their harbors with large timber rafts— Rebellion Records, page 20, series 1, volume I. On the same date General McClellan sent telegrams to the commanding officers at New York, Newport, New London, Boston and Portland, Maine, to the same effect. Admiral Dalhgren is busy at Washington having twenty-four canal boats laden with stone to close the Potomac river. General McClellan on March 9th sends a telegram to General Wool, at Fort Monroe, in which, foreseeing the necessity of evacuating Newport News in the event the Merrimac gains possession of the Roads, he consents to a withdrawal of the garrison to Old Point, Rebellion Records, page 23, series 1, volume I. March 10t
Jamestown (Virginia) (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.1
d. Timely notice was given and all the wounded who could walk were ordered out of the cock-pit, but those of the wounded in the sick bay and on the berth-deck were so mangled that it was impossible to save them. We have lost upward of one hundred men. All did their duty, and we sank with the American flag flying at our peak. No ship was ever better handled or more bravely fought. At this period of the action the James-river fleet, composed of the Patrick Henry, Captain J. R. Tucker; Jamestown, Lieutenant J. N. Barney, and the Teaser, Lieutenant W. A. Webb, ran by the batteries at Newport News under a heavy fire, with some loss, and gallantly joining the fleet from Norfolk, rendered material aid during the remainder of the action. Disabled and aground. The Congress being under the fire of the Beaufort and Raleigh, and at times of the Merrimac as she slowly executed the movement of turning, seeing the fate of the Cumberland, slipped her cable, loosed her foretop sail, ran u
Portland (Maine, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.1
at the Merrimac was at this moment on her way to Washington, and not unlikely we shall have a shell or cannon-ball from one of her guns in the White House before we leave this room. On March 9th Mr. Stanton telegraphed the Governors of New York, Massachusetts and Maine to protect their harbors with large timber rafts— Rebellion Records, page 20, series 1, volume I. On the same date General McClellan sent telegrams to the commanding officers at New York, Newport, New London, Boston and Portland, Maine, to the same effect. Admiral Dalhgren is busy at Washington having twenty-four canal boats laden with stone to close the Potomac river. General McClellan on March 9th sends a telegram to General Wool, at Fort Monroe, in which, foreseeing the necessity of evacuating Newport News in the event the Merrimac gains possession of the Roads, he consents to a withdrawal of the garrison to Old Point, Rebellion Records, page 23, series 1, volume I. March 10th while openly proclaiming the defea
Elizabeth (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.1
Newport News in the event the Merrimac gains possession of the Roads, he consents to a withdrawal of the garrison to Old Point, Rebellion Records, page 23, series 1, volume I. March 10th while openly proclaiming the defeat of the Merrimac by the Monitor in the engagement of the 9th, Secretary Welles wires the Assistant-Secretary of the Navy at Fort Monroe, The President directs that the Monitor be not too much exposed and authorizes vessels laden with stone to be sunk in the channel of Elizabeth river to prevent the Merrimac from again coming out.—Do., page 25. As late as the 12th General McClellan telegraphs Assistant-Secretary Fox: Can I rely on the Monitor to keep the Merrimac in check so that I can make Fort Monroe a base of operations? —Do., page 27. The same date General Barnard, chief of engineers, McClellan's army, wires Assistant-Secretary Fox: The possibility of the Merrimac appearing again, paralyzes the movements of this army by whatever route is adopted.—Do., page 27. T<
Richmond (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.1
the channel until abreast of our batteries at Sewell's Point, at which position she could turn up the south channel of James river, making the distance to Newport News about four or five miles further. The day was fresh and clear, and we could see r the vessel soon began to careen. The shock to us was slight. Backing off from the sinking vessel, we headed up the James river to turn round and engage the Congress. To do this, a most tedious movement, the Merrimac had twice to pass within cloof checking the advance of McClellan upon Richmond, by which we were enabled to complete the defences of that city and James river, was one of great moment to the Confederacy. The powerful navies of England and France were brushed aside in a moment, grounded and remained just opposite the battery in easy range until near daybreak. Our station henceforth being the James river, I must rely upon contemporary accounts for the remaining career of the Merrimac. The beleaguerment of Richmond, in t
United States (United States) (search for this): chapter 1.1
witness and participator as an officer of the Confederate States Navy in these eventful actions, I shall attem States forces set on fire and scuttled, was the United States frigate Merrimac. She belonged to the new class honor of the plan—Lieutenant John M. Brooke, Confederate States Navy, and Constructor John L. Porter, ConfedeConfederate States Navy. The Editor would refer the reader to the dispassionate statement of Colonel Brooke, The Vnventive genius of Captain Archibald Fairfax, Confederate States Navy), and were the sole survivors of our disn that morning the Monitor, Naugatuck, and other United States vessels attacked our battery at Sewell's Point. imac drove the Monitor, Naugatuck, and six other United States war vessels from Sewell's Point to within one an old adversaries, the Monitor, Galena, and other United States vessels in their attack on Drury's Bluff May 15,ember 29, 1862, the Monitor, under convoy of the United States steamer Rhode Island, left Fort Monroe bound fo
Craney Island (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.1
rly half speed. All went well until we were abreast of Craney Island (five miles from Norfolk), when the Merrimac was so near assistance, took a hawser from her and towed her past Craney-Island light, where, the water getting deeper, we let her go. feet of water and were able to cut across the flats of Craney Island, whilst the Merrimac had to keep the channel until abreot under way late in the evening and anchored inside of Craney Island for the night, to make an early start the next morning.strong Federal force on the bay shore, and also west of Craney Island, and making a combined attack from the east and west. ag-Lieutenant J. Pembroke Jones was immediately sent to Craney Island, and there learned for the first time that a large forcrt, and at this hour all the batteries on the river and Craney Island had been abandoned by our troops. The night was fast a in Richmond. She was, therefore, put on shore as near Craney Island as possible, and having but two boats it took three hou
Rhode Island (Rhode Island, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.1
a heavy gale. At 10 P. M., matters having become critical and it being impossible to keep the Monitor free of the water that came aboard with every sea, signals of distress were burned. Gallant and untiring efforts of rescue were made by the Rhode Island, and one of her boats was on its third and last perilous trip to remove those still aboard the Monitor when the ill-fated vessel suddenly disappeared beneath the angry waters, carrying down with her four officers and twelve men, forty-nine havs and twelve men, forty-nine having been saved. This boat failed to reach the Monitor or regain the side of the Rhode Island, but drifted all night and the next day upon the waste of waters, until rescued by a passing vessel and taken into Philadelphia. We live within a new environment. The Merrimac and the Monitor are things of the past; but history shall note their deeds when the names of those who bore part in them shall be unremembered. Virginius Newton, Late a Midshipman, C. S. Navy.
Minnesota (Minnesota, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.1
t Old Point by the Baltimore boat this evening. Do not move the ships until further orders, which he will carry. Had the first order been executed and these vessels moved up the Potomac river the victory of the Merrimac would have been shorn of its chief triumphs. The action of Saturday, March 8, 1862. On this day the United States Government had at anchor in Hampton Roads, near Fort Monroe, besides twelve gunboats, mounting from one to five guns, the frigates Roanoke (forty guns), Minnesota (forty-eight guns), St. Lawrence (fifty guns), Brandywine (fifty guns), and the frigates Congress (fifty guns) and Cumberland (thirty guns) lying at Newport News under the guns of a strongly-fortified land battery. Without a trial trip, with workmen on board up to the last minute, with a crew and officers strangers to each other and to the ship, with no opportunity to get things into shape or to drill the men at the guns or instruct them in their various duties, the Merrimac, under comma
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