The Daily Dispatch: March 19, 1862., [Electronic resource], Iron-clad vessels.

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Iron-clad vessels.

The successful experiment of the Virginia has shown the immense value of vessels thus clad, and the only regret is this we have not a dozen of them now prepared for service. There are inexhaustible mines of iron ore in the Southern Confederacy, and, besides, almost every household in the land has a quantity of old iron, which, if proper measures were taken to collect it, would furnish materials enough to sheath a considerable navy. If, at the beginning of the war steps had been taken for this purpose, and our mineral wealth energetically developed to that end, we might now have a fleet which would open every Southern port, break the blockade, and sink the whole wooden Federal navy.--It is not too late to repair our neglect, but we must set about it at once and systematically.

The Daily Dispatch: March 19, 1862. Richmond Dispatch. 4 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. March 19, 1862. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

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