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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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to march onward to Richmond. But the public need to be in no way perturbed as to his ample ability to defend himself from a land attack, and, if it is deemed advisable, to carry his army safely down the James, or transfer it to the other side. The rebel boasts as to what their new Merrimac (or Richmond) and its consort ram are going to do against Gen. McClellan's army, and against our navy, are preposterous. We have a far greater naval force in the James now than we had when the first Merrimac committed self-slaughter, because, as its commander has confessed, the contest with the National fleet was hopeless; and that naval force, if properly and boldly handled, is sufficient to fight and destroy half a dozen Merrimacs. We learn this morning, from one of our special correspondents with the army — what we had not previously learned by telegraph — that the new rebel monster made its appearance on Wednesday last, and our fleet was promptly drawn up to give it battle. Of the issue o