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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 3. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book I:—the war on the Rapidan. (search)
nel obliged the Union vessels to proceed in single file. The Weehawken was to lead the way under the direction of Captain John Rodgers, an officer of the highest distinction. The task was a perilous one. In order to diminish its dangers, a specieso, for the most part, had served in the Federal navy. Her captain, William A. Webb, had been at the Naval School with John Rodgers, who commanded the Wechawken. On the evening of the 16th of June everything was ready; at daybreak the following day tood-tide, which facilitated the action of his rudder. The monitors heading toward the sea by the influence of the tide, Rodgers did not wish to turn them in the channel where he was, for fear of running them aground at this critical moment. The Wonsort behind, comes up to within three hundred yards of the Atlanta, which has not yet been able to extricate herself. Rodgers himself points his fifteen-inch gun: the enormous ball strikes the armor of the enemy's vessel, and, in spite of its inc