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Edward Alfred Pollard, The lost cause; a new Southern history of the War of the Confederates ... Drawn from official sources and approved by the most distinguished Confederate leaders., Chapter 16: (search)
of the Virginia. her last challenge to the enemy. a galling spectacle. Commodore Tatnall orders her destruction. a Court of inquiry. naval engagement at Drewry' worth fifty thousand troops in the field, was destroyed by the orders of Commodore Tatnall, her commander. The iron diadem of the South, exclaimed the Richmond Exae therefore enabled to cut off the Virginia from her necessary supplies. Commodore Tatnall resolved to take the vessel up the river above the lines occupied by the t of water within forty miles of Richmond. The ship was being lightened; Commodore Tatnall had retired to bed, when another message was brought him that the ship ha her wooden hull below the plating was exposed, and that the pilots (whom Commodore Tatnall charged with cowardice and an unwillingness to engage in action) now decle that guarded the water approach to Richmond. The Virginia, reported Commander Tatnall, no longer exists. I presume that a court of inquiry will be ordered to