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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 16: Secession of Virginia and North Carolina declared.--seizure of Harper's Ferry and Gosport Navy Yard.--the first troops in Washington for its defense. (search)
k, eighty-four, on the stocks: the frigates United States, fifty; Columbia, fifty; and Raritan, fifty: the sloops-of-war Plymouth, twenty-two, and Germantown, twenty-two: the brig Dolphin, four; and the steam-frigate Merrimack, afterward made famous ington with instructions from the Secretary of the Navy for McCauley to lose no time in arming the Merrimack; to get the Plymouth and Dolphin beyond danger; to have the Germantown in a condition to be towed out, and to put the more valuable property,ntown was also burnt and sunk; while the useless old United States, in which Decatur won glory, was not injured; and the Plymouth was not burned, but scuttled and sunk. The same fate overtook the Columbus and Delaware. The Plymouth was afterward raiPlymouth was afterward raised; so was the Merrimack, and converted into a powerful iron-clad vessel of war. Report of the Select Committee of the United States Senate for investigating the facts in relation to the loss of the Navy Yard, et coetera, submitted by Senator Hal