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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 19. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The Virginia, or Merrimac: her real projector. (search)

y Mr J. W. H. Porter, under the supervision of Constructor John L. Porter, purporting to be a correct version of the converting of the Merrimac into an iron-clad. Mr Porter says: In your issue of Sunday last, in the communication of Mr. Virginius Newton, headed The Merrimac's men , there appears the following: Upon this hulk, according to plans furnished by Lieutenant John M. Brooke of the Confederate States Navy (though the merit of the design is also claimed for Naval Constructor John L. Porter), was built a house or shield, &c. This does a grave injustice to a gallant old Confederate and Virginian, who sacrificed his all upon the altar of his country; and had Mr. Newton known fully the facts it is believed that he would have published his article with the names above reversed. The following dispassionate statement of Colonel Brooke of the facts connected with the conversion of the Merrimac is conclusive: In October, 1887, I was requested by the editor of the

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