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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 31. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The First Marine torpedoes were made in Richmond, Va., and used in James river. (search)
First Marine torpedoes were made in Richmond, Va., and used in James river. Despite the study of this Method of warfare, more was accomplished by the Confederate States of America than has been accomplished for many years since. Colonel Richard L. Maury, a son of Commodore Matthew Fontaine Maury, has written for the Times-Dispatch an extremely interesting article on the invention and use of torpedoes, in which his father was the pioneer, and to the perfection of which he, himself, and oof the Tribune's writer, and what will he say to the statement of the United States Secretary of the Navy in his report to Congress in 1865, that the navy had lost more vessels from Confederate torpedoes than from all other causes combined? Richard L. Maury, Colonel 24 Virginia Infantry, Pickett's Division. [From the Raleigh Morning Post, January, 1902.] Our last capital. Danville's part in the closing hours of the Confederacy. What Davis did while there. Text of the proclamation is