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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 91 13 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1. 11 1 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 10 2 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Cheerful Yesterdays 7 1 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 6 0 Browse Search
the Rev. W. Turner , Jun. , MA., Lives of the eminent Unitarians 6 2 Browse Search
James Russell Soley, Professor U. S. Navy, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.1, The blockade and the cruisers (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 6 2 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1 5 1 Browse Search
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George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition. 3 1 Browse Search
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James Russell Soley, Professor U. S. Navy, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.1, The blockade and the cruisers (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 3: (search)
rdered as executive officer. Two acting-masters, Stodder and Webber, also joined her. There were four engineer officers, of whom the senior was First Assistant-Engineer Isaac Newton. Chief-Engineer A. C. Stimers made the passage in the vessel, as the Government inspector, to report upon her machinery. The crew were volunteers, ses in its normal position. The experience of the first Monitor led to the simple device of putting the pilot-house over the turret, a change that was suggested by Newton, the engineer of the vessel. Finally the machinery for turning the turret, a wheel and rod connected by gearing with the turret-engine, was so defective that the smoke-pipe and blower-pipe, caused the blower-bands to slip and break. This stopped the draft in the furnace, and filled the engine-room and fire-room with gas. Newton, with the other engineers and the firemen, strove in vain against the gas, trying to repair the injury, and they were only rescued as they lay unconscious on the
James Russell Soley, Professor U. S. Navy, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.1, The blockade and the cruisers (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Index. (search)
139 Morris, Captain, 187 Morris, Lieutenant, 62 Nahant, the, 117 et seq. Nashville, the, fitted up, 215 et seq.; destroyed, 217 et seq. Nassau, port for blockaderun-ners, 36 et seq., 155 et seq. Navy, Confederate organization, etc., 21 Navy, Union organization, 1-21; condition of, in 1861, 232; close of war, 236 Navy Yard, Norfolk, 46 et seq.; abandoned, 52 et seq.; partly destroyed, 53 Neptune, the, 147 et seq. New Orleans, La., blockade at, 35, 46, 122 Newton, Isaac, Engineer of Monitor, 56, 58 Niagara, the, at Charleston, 34, 84, 121 et seq. Norfolk, Va., blockaded, 35, 46 et seq., 55, 71 et seq.; surrenders, 78 officers, naval, at commencement of war, 4 et seq. Oneida, the, 136 Oreto, the, 183 Owasco, the, 144, 144 (note) Palmetto State, the, attempts to raise blockade of Charleston, 109 et seq. Patrick Henry, the, 64, 66 Paulding, Commodore, Hiram, 51 et seq.; burns Navy Yard at Norfolk. 53 Pawnee, the, 11, 51 Pendergra