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James Barnes, author of David G. Farragut, Naval Actions of 1812, Yank ee Ships and Yankee Sailors, Commodore Bainbridge , The Blockaders, and other naval and historical works, The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 6: The Navy. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), The most famous naval action of the Civil war (search)
f the captured Confederate ram Atlanta The honor of the first decisive engagement with one of the formidable ironclads that were constructed by the Confederacy was denied to the original Monitor. It fell to the monitor Weehawken, one of seven similar vessels designed by Ericsson for the navy. Under Captain John Rodgers, she, with her sister-vessels, ran first under fire in the attack made upon Fort Sumter and the batteries in Charleston Harbor by Rear-Admiral Du Pont in April, 1863. In June, she and the Nahant were blockading the mouth of Wilmington River, Georgia. Early on the morning of the 17th, Captain Rodgers was apprised that the huge Confederate ram, into which the old blockade-runner Fingal had been converted, was coming down to raise the blockade. Clearing for action, the Weehawken steamed slowly toward the northeastern end of Wassaw Sound, followed by the Nahant. When about a mile and a half from the Weehawken, the Atlanta, which was aground, fired a rifleshot at he