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the presence of the Monitor and the Federal fleet.
As our ships returned with their captures they passed near the stern of the English Corvette Rinaldo, the officers and crew of which waved their handkerchiefs and hats in salute.
We held our position in the Roads until sundown, and at night anchored off Sewell's Point.
A day or so after this the Merrimac, again in need of repairs, went up to Norfolk.
During the forty-five days she was under Commodore Tatnall's command there were but thirteen days in which she was not in dock or undergoing necessary repairs.
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