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The Daily Dispatch: may 6, 1861., [Electronic resource] 3 1 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1. 2 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 32. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 1 1 Browse Search
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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., chapter 15.61 (search)
Notes on the monitor-merrimac fight. condensed from a paper in The Southern bivouac for March, 1887. Dinwiddie B. Phillips, Surgeon of the Merrimac. The Virginia (or Merrimac), with which I was connected during her entire career, bore some resemblance to a huge terrapin with a large round chimney about the middle of its back. She was so built as not to suit high winds and heavy seas, and therefore could not operate outside the capes of Virginia. In fact she was designed from the first as a defense for the harbor of Norfolk, and for that alone. In addition to our guns, we were armed with an iron ram or prow. The prow, not being well put on, was twisted off and lost in our first encounter with the Cumberland. I am also satisfied that had not our prow been lost, we should have sunk the Monitor when we rammed her on the 9th of March, 1862. Admiral Worden is of contrary opinion. In a private letter to me, dated March 13th, 1882, he says: If the prow of the Merrimac had been
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 32. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The ironclad ram Virginia-Confederate States Navy, [from the Richmond, Va., News-leader, April 1, 1904.] (search)
b; Beaufort (1 gun), Lieutenant-Commander W. H. Parker; Raleigh (1 gun), Lieutenant-Commander I. W. Alexander. When the Virginia steamed over from Norfolk to engage the Federal fleet, her officers were: Flag officer, Franklin Buchanan; executive, Lieutenant Catesby A. R. Jones; lieutenants, Charles C. Simms, R. D. Minor, Hunter Davidson, J. Taylor Wood, J. R. Eggleston and Walter Butt; midshipmen, Fonte, Marmaduke, Littlepage, Craig, Long and Roote; paymaster, James Semple; surgeon, Dinwiddie B. Phillips; assistant surgeon, Algernon S. Garnett; captain of marines, Reuben Thom; engineers, H. A. Ramsey; acting chief, Tynan, Campbell, Hening, Jack and White; boatswain, Hasker; gunner, Oliver; carpenter, Lindsey; clerk, Arthur Sinclair, Jr.; volunteer aid, Lieutenant Douglas F. Forrest; Confederate States army, Captain Kevill, commanding detachment of Norfolk United Artillery; signal corps, Sergeant Tabb. [Our impression is that this list is incomplete; that Dr. Bennett Wood Gree
The Daily Dispatch: may 6, 1861., [Electronic resource], Acceptable present. (search)
Resignation of an Army Surgeon. --Among the Virginians who have lately resigned their commissions in the service of the United States, is Surgeon Dinwiddie B. Phillips, of the Army. Like many other officers of high rank, he refused to disgrace himself or his State by associating with those now engaged in executing the orders of " ole Dabe " of Illinois. Surgeon Phillips is now in Rappahannock county. Resignation of an Army Surgeon. --Among the Virginians who have lately resigned their commissions in the service of the United States, is Surgeon Dinwiddie B. Phillips, of the Army. Like many other officers of high rank, he refused to disgrace himself or his State by associating with those now engaged in executing the orders of " ole Dabe " of Illinois. Surgeon Phillips is now in Rappahannock county.