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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: Volume 2., The navy in the Peninsular campaign . (search)
The navy in the Peninsular campaign. by Professor James Russell Soley, U. S. N.
On the gun-deck of the Confederate iron-clad, Merrimac.
At the opening of the Peninsular campaign, April 1st, 1862, the North Atlantic Squadron, with its headquarters at Hampton Roads, was commanded by Flag-Officer Louis M. Goldsborough.
The command included not only the operations in the Chesapeake and its tributary waters, but an entirely distinct series of operations in the sounds of North Carolina, and hich was requested of him by General McClellan.
It may be that the naval attack on Yorktown and Gloucester was not pressed because McClellan learned in this interview that it was impracticable.
On this point Fox said:
Maps of the monitor and Merrimac fight [see also Vol.
I., P. 692], and of operations in the York and James rivers.
In the Turret of the monitor.
Wooden vessels could not have attacked the batteries at Yorktown and Gloucester with any degree of success.
The forts at Yor