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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 13. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The Merrimac and the Monitor—Report of the Committee on Naval Affairs. (search)
orial and brief, transmitted with your letter, are herewith returned. Very respectfully, William H. Hunt, Secretary of the Navy. Hon. John R. Thomas, Committee on Naval Affairs, House of Representatives. State of New York, County of Erie: Personally appeared before me this 21st day of November, 1874, Captain James Byers, who deposes and says as follows: I was at Norfolk from September, 1860, to the 8th day of May, 1862, master of steam-tug J. B. White, built at Buffalo by George Notter. I was employed by the contractors building the Albermarle Canal. The Merrimac was sunk by the Federals near the navy-yard, previous to the evacuation of Norfolk, to avoid her falling into the hands of the Confederates. She was raised by the Confederates by Baker Brothers, wreckers, and put into the dock at Norfolk, cut down and fitted up—a heavy frame of wood covered with heavy plate iron. They worked on her night and day. She was armed with four heavy guns on each side, one on her