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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) 182 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 19. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 74 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 62 0 Browse Search
The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure) 60 0 Browse Search
Elias Nason, McClellan's Own Story: the war for the union, the soldiers who fought it, the civilians who directed it, and his relations to them. 31 1 Browse Search
John G. Nicolay, A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln, condensed from Nicolay and Hayes' Abraham Lincoln: A History 30 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 11. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 28 0 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1. 24 0 Browse Search
Caroline E. Whitcomb, History of the Second Massachusetts Battery of Light Artillery (Nims' Battery): 1861-1865, compiled from records of the Rebellion, official reports, diaries and rosters 20 0 Browse Search
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 4. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier) 18 0 Browse Search
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Caroline E. Whitcomb, History of the Second Massachusetts Battery of Light Artillery (Nims' Battery): 1861-1865, compiled from records of the Rebellion, official reports, diaries and rosters, Nims' Second Massachusetts Battery (search)
and the encounter between the Monitor and the Merrimac. The following interesting account of the samter. After about an hour's hard fighting the Merrimac ran her prow into the Cumberland, causing herater covered the decks. Night coming on, the Merrimac anchored off Sewall's Point. That was a darkeen expected had arrived and would engage the Merrimac in the morning. Still it was but a grain. ather insignificant. About eight o'clock the Merrimac came saucily out accompanied by the Jamestowned her for several hours. At one o'clock the Merrimac hauled away for Norfolk with her guns all dised for four hours firing several shots at the Merrimac, which was, however, too far away to be reach practise. Several Confederate steamers, the Merrimac among them, came out of Norfolk and lay in liregular army on the left. About 4 P. M. the Merrimac moved a little nearer and fired at the Union t shot bursting just on the other side of the Merrimac—a distance of four and one-half miles. We rec