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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore) 12 0 Browse Search
Daniel Ammen, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.2, The Atlantic Coast (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 4 2 Browse Search
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Daniel Ammen, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.2, The Atlantic Coast (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 4: raid of the Confederate ironclads off Charles-Ton.—attack on Fort M'Allister. (search)
and Unadilla, were purchased vessels whose steam-pipes, chimneys, and machinery were much exposed when under fire. Such vessels, built of iron, if penetrated by a shot or shell would receive little injury from the ingress, but if it were not arrested by some solid body within, on its egress a whole sheet would be carried away, perhaps at the water-line, and the vessel might sink at once, as did the Hatteras, after an engagement with the Alabama off Galveston, Texas. The Mercedita, Captain F. S. Stellwagen, just such an iron vessel as described, was the first approached by a ram. In the early part of the evening she had overhauled a transport missing with troops and afterward returned to her position and anchored. About 4 A. M., one of the armor-plated vessels (the Palmetto State) suddenly appeared through the mist. She was hailed and an order given to fire, but it was found the ram was so close that the guns of the Mercedita could not be sufficiently depressed to strike her. A hea
Daniel Ammen, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.2, The Atlantic Coast (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Index. (search)
ron, North Atlantic, 216 Squadron, West Gulf, 216 Star of the South, the, U. S. transport, 49 Stars and Stripes, the, U. S. vessel, 177, 189, 193 State fealty, 5 et seq. Steedman, Commander, Charles, 21, 70 et seq. Stellwagen, Captain F. S., 74 Stellwagen, Commander Henry S., 165, 171 Stephens, Alexander H., address of, 1 et seq., 246 Stettin, the, 80 et seq. Stevens, General I. L, 30, 43, 45 Stevens Lieutenant-Commanding Thomas H., 21, 54, 61, 138 StiStellwagen, Commander Henry S., 165, 171 Stephens, Alexander H., address of, 1 et seq., 246 Stettin, the, 80 et seq. Stevens, General I. L, 30, 43, 45 Stevens Lieutenant-Commanding Thomas H., 21, 54, 61, 138 Stimers, Chief-Engineer Alban C., 109 et seq., 138 Stolesbury, Engineer, 213 Stringham, Commodore, 165, 169, 171 Strong, Commander J. H., 81 Stuyvesant, Report of, 143 Sumter, Fort, see Fort Sumter. Sumter, the, U. S. steamer, 7 Susquehanna, the, U. S. vessel, 7, 16, 20 et seq., 23, 27, 32, 166 et seq., 174, 224, 228 Swan, Paymaster, 212 T. Tacony, the, 218, 228, 239 Tatnall, Commodore, Josiah, 19; his defence of Fort Walker, 22 et seq., 47 Taylor, Captain, W