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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 13. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The Merrimac and the Monitor—Report of the Committee on Naval Affairs. (search)
ahlgren, dated War Department, March 13, 1862, says: I would not trust this city and the fleet you see coming into the river to the strength of a single screw-bolt in the Monitor's new machinery. If one breaks the Merrimac beats her. On March 14, 12 M., General Meigs telegraphed to Captain Dahlgren: I have seen nothing yet to satisfy me that in the next engagement the Monitor will not be sunk. On March 14, General Wool telegraphed to Hon. E. M. Stanton from Fort Monroe: I beMarch 14, General Wool telegraphed to Hon. E. M. Stanton from Fort Monroe: I beg you will send me more troops. The Merrimac is preparing, and they are strengthening her weak points. It is thought she will be prepared to come out in a very few days. If she should overcome the Monitor we would lose Newport News, an important position, &c. On March 15, 1862, six days after the engagement, Hon. John Tucker, Assistant Secretary of War, telegraphed Commodore C. Vanderbilt at New York as follows: The Secretary of War directs me to ask you for what sum you will destroy
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 13. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 11 (search)
illing to part with a regiment on which he could implicitly rely for the faithful and prompt execution of orders in any emergency. At last, by dint of insistance, verging on importunity, the General's reluctant consent was yielded. On the 14th of March, in default of telegraphic communication, an express locomotive was dispatched to bear instructions to Lieutenant-Colonel Myers, then camped at Eagle Lake, to hasten with the regiment to Houston, where he arrived on the evening of the next da with having lost time on the road, while, with ordinary diligence, he should have reported at least ten days before. When the General understood that the regiment, stationed at eighty miles beyond Houston, received the order of march on the 14th of March, and, impeded by a long train of wagons, had ridden over two hundred and fifty miles in less than fourteen days, he extended his hand to the Colonel, whose nativity was disclosed by his accent, and said to him in French, I see that you are no