Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Merrimac” in chapter 27, page 394 of Allan Pinkerton, The spy in the rebellion; being a true history of the spy system of the United States Army during the late rebellion, revealing many secrets of the war hitherto not made public, compiled from official reports prepared for President Lincoln , General McClellan and the Provost-Marshal-General .:
...sfortune of war. Darius, made King of Persia by the neighing of a horse-and in our own day historians agree, that had it not been for the opportune appearance of the Monitor when the rebel iron-clad Merrimac steamed out of Hampton Roads in March, 1862, the destruction of the Union might have been an accomplished fact.
For had not that formidable battery met her match in the Yankee cheese-box, as the ...
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