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The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure), The First iron-clad Monitor . (search)
The First iron-clad Monitor. Hon. Gideon Welles.
The Navy of the United States, at the commencement of Mr. Lincoln's administration, was feeble, and in no condition for belligerent operations.
Most of the vessels in commission were on foreign service; only three or four, and they of an inferior class, were available for act the little Monitor had taken care of her. Oh!
said the President, pointing to the boats which lined the shore, that is Stanton's navy; that is the squadron that Welles would have nothing to do with, and about which he and Stanton had the dispute.
It was finally decided, I believe, that the War Department might have a fleet of its own to fight the Merrimac, and there it is. We were all a little scared at that time.
Mr. Welles felt bad enough, but was not enough scared to listen to Stanton's scheme of blockading the river; said the fleet of boats would be useless, and, if used, worse than useless.
Stanton, who was a little disconcerted by the Presiden
The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure), The War's Carnival of fraud. (search)