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crew-frigates of 1855, as they failed to show their usefulness, except perhaps at Port Royal and at Fort Fisher. The Colorado could not be got over the bar, when Farragut went up to New Orleans, and the Roanoke and Minnesota were helpless at Hampton Roads. In the latter half of the war, however, the Department undertook the construction of a class of vessels of considerable size, but very different in character. These were large, wooden steamers, with fine lines, excessively long and sharp aix months in the waters of North Carolina, but she was blockaded in the Roanoke River, and was finally destroyed by the daring of Cushing. Finally the Merrimao, which was lost through our own shortcomings, had a brilliant but brief career in Hampton Roads. These isolated attempts comprised, together with the exploits of the cruisers, the sum of the naval operations on the Southern side; Viewed in the light of the difficulties to be met by the Confederate navy, they were little less than phe

ok his station off the Mississippi, he merely informed the officer commanding the forts that New Orleans was blockaded. Pendergrast, the commanding officer at Hampton Roads, issued a formal document on April 30, calling attention to the President's proclamation in relation to Virginia and North Carolina, and giving notice that he ed by the same defects as the proclamation. The actual blockade and the notice of it must always be commensurate. At this time, there were several vessels in Hampton Roads, but absolutely no force on the coast of North Carolina; and the declaration was open to the charge of stating what was not an existing fact. The importance York and Philadelphia. One of these, the Keystone State, chartered by Lieutenant Woodhull, and intended especially for use at Norfolk, was at her station in Hampton Roads in forty-eight hours after Woodhull had received his orders in Washington to secure a vessel. The screw-steamer South Carolina, of eleven hundred and sixty-fi

ockade began, both in name and in fact, at Hampton Roads, and here it continued to be maintained wihauled. Meantime the enemy were taking Hampton Roads. advantage of every hour of delay. Trooput the experience of a single afternoon in Hampton Roads, in the month of March, 1862, to show thatred which put a new aspect upon affairs in Hampton Roads. At four in the afternoon the Monitor hadt, considering the important interests at Hampton Roads, of which the Monitor afforded the sole prof the Monitor. The first day's battle in Hampton Roads had shown that the enemy possessed an engie frigates at her mercy, and the waters of Hampton Roads under her control. To all appearances theman and historical. To Captain Worden. Hampton Roads, April 24th, 1862. U. S. S. Monitor. To oueptember, and two months later returned to Hampton Roads. The career of the Monitor was now nearwas about as long as that from New York to Hampton Roads. The Monitor was accompanied by the Passa[7 more...]

Commodore Pendergrast, still in command of the Home Squadron at Hampton Roads. The only effective blockade then existing was maintained by tsigned to him as flagship, and on the 13th of May he arrived at Hampton Roads, and entered upon his command. The instructions sent to Striomprised twenty-two vessels, but most of them were stationed in Hampton Roads or were cruising at a distance from the coast. The line of otres had peculiar features of their own. Between Washington and Hampton Roads lay the military frontier. The blockade in the Potomac River w of a blockader between Cape Henry and Cape Fear. The force in Hampton Roads was composed of the Minnesota, Roanoke, and Susquehanna, the sa the station of the flagship continued for a long time to be at Hampton Roads. On the 20th of July the steamer Daylight took her station omer of 1864, the headquarters of the squadron were removed from Hampton Roads to Beaufort. In the fall the blockading force at the two entra

mation, as he expressed it; and all was quiet again. As the Wachusett steamed out of the harbor with her prize, the Brazilian made a pro forma demonstration, without stopping the two vessels, and the latter proceeded by way of St. Thomas to Hampton Roads. Here the Florida was sunk, according to the official declaration of the United States Government, through an unforeseen accident, after a collision with an army transport. The capture of the Florida was as gross and deliberate a violatioiago de Cuba as the vessels that were to compose the squadron. Of these only the Wachusett and the Dacotah were fitted to cope singly with the Alabama; but other suitable vessels were subsequently added to the squadron. Wilkes sailed from Hampton Roads in the Wachusett on the 24th of September. His cruise lasted about nine months. During two months of this time, the Alabama was in the same waters; while the Florida, when she left Mobile, ran directly into his cruising ground. But Wilkes w

ongress assembled July 5; a month later it passed the appropriation; in six weeks the board reported; three weeks afterward the contract for the Monitor was signed; and, after all this deliberation and discussion, had the Monitor's arrival in Hampton Roads been postponed by one single day, by the infinitesimal space, considering the length of preparation, of twenty-four hours, she would have found little in the shape of a fleet to need her protection. It is a common mistake to point to our eockading squadron from the Head of the Passes. There was one steam-frigate that had been raised out of the water, and made in some sense a modern war vessel, which played havoc with her antiquated opponents, and for a month kept the force at Hampton Roads at bay. There were other ironclads which had been fitted out under almost every disadvantage that circumstances could create, and which had a short career at various points. In coping, not with this force, for it could hardly be called a fo

nboats built, 19 Guns, naval, before and during the war, 2,15; loss of, at Norfolk, 54 Hampton Roads, blockaded, 47, 82, 85 Handy, Captain, Robert, 125, 131 Harriet Lane, 143, 144 (note), 1tic Squadron, 90 Lee, R. E., the, 156 McCauley, Commodore, 49, 51; destroys vessels at Hampton Roads, 51 et seq. McKean, Flag Officer, Wm. W., relieves Commodore Mervine, 123 Maffitt, Capy, Confederate Secretary of Navy, 22 Manassas, the, 129 Maps, the Blockaded Coast, 36; Hampton Roads, 50; entrances to Cape Fear River, 92; entrances to Charleston Harbor, 106; passes of the Miattacked, 110 et seq. Merrimac, the, 48 et seq., 61; name changed to Virginia, 61, 62; in Hampton Roads, 63 et seq.; fight with the Monitor, 68 et seq.; repaired, 76; destroyed, 78 Mervine, Com Monitor, the, built, 55; its construction, 56 et seq.; voyage to Chesapeake, 58 et seq.; at Hampton Roads, 67; fight with the Merrimac, 68 et seq., 78 et seq.; sinks, 81 Monroe, Fortress, 47 et s

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