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Tennessee (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.1
ration would have been made but for the delay which would have attended it. The ship is now deficient in that respect. The sixth proposition was to put six inches of iron on bow and stern. Approved by the Secretary but omitted, from your statement that the ship would not carry it. John M. Brooke, Lieutenant, C. S. Navy. The faulty arrangement of the wheel-ropes was brought to my notice by Lieutenant Jones. A similar arrangement was the immediate cause of the loss of the iron-clad Tennessee. On the 4th of April Secretary Mallory's report to the House of Representatives appeared in the Examiner. Confederate States Navy Department, Richmond, March 29, 1862. Hon. Thomas S. Bocock, Speaker of the House of Representatives: Sir: In compliance with the resolution adopted by the House of Representatives on the 18th instant, That the Secretary of the Navy be requested to make a report to this House of the plan and construction of the Virginia, so far as the same can be proper
Sewell's Point (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.1
the sailors say, pulled foot for Old Point. The St. Lawrence got a dose and cleared out, leaving the Minnesota alone in her sad plight, hard and fast aground, with some tugs trying to lighten her, and taking the fire from our squadron, to which she replied as well as she could, generally from her forward pivot gun. She being aground, and night coming on, of course Jones could not carry on the fight, and after a hard night of it the Commodore and I were landed early on Sunday morning at Seawell's Point, and Jones took the ship into action that day, fighting her like a bold seaman, as he is. He must tell you of his tussle with the Eric, a very devil of an iron battery, for he has just come in and said he had a letter from you. God bless old Buchanan for a true-hearted patriot and bold, dashing sailor, as brave as brave can be; but he exposed himself entirely too much, and was struck by a musket or minnie ball while on the upper deck, I believe, for I was under the doctor's hands then,
United States (United States) (search for this): chapter 1.1
t to the House of Representatives of the Confederate States, The Department ordered Chief Engineer Wy. (Signed) S. R. Mallory, Secretary Confederate States Navy. Of the great and skillful calc, William P. Williamson, Chief Engineer Confederate States Navy, John M. Brooke, Lieutenant, Confeas made oath that he is a citizen of the Confederate States; that he does verily believe that he is used; has paid into the treasury of the Confederate States the sum of forty dollars, and presented -line, as illustrated in the case of the Confederate States steamer Virginia, which vessel was constto William P. Williamson, Chief-Engineer Confederate States Navy, and John L. Porter, Constructor Coo other vessel was built that way by the Confederate States. Subsequent vessels were made after the were ever built after that model in the Confederate States. When the Merrimac, after conversion, Catesby Ap. R. Jones. [extract.] Confederate States steamer Virginia, Norfolk, March 7, 1862[14 more...]
Jamestown (Virginia) (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.1
s, the fire from shore being too hot; and as Alexander backed out in the Raleigh he was fired at from the ports of the Congress, though she had surrendered to us. A dastardly, cowardly act! Buchanan not getting Parker's report, and the frigate not being burnt, he accepted my volunteered services to burn her; and, taking eight men and our only remaining boat, I pulled for her, with Webb in the gallant little Teazer steaming up soon afterwards to cover me. In the meantime the Patrick Henry, Jamestown, and Teazer had come splendidly into action just about the time or a little before the Congress struck, and when I left the old beauty they were doing grand work with their guns on the Minnesota and shore batteries. I did not think the Yankees on shore would fire at me on my errand to the Congress, but when in about two hundred and fifty yards of her they opened on me from the shore with muskets and artillery; and the way the balls danced around my little boat and crew was lively beyon
Hampton Roads (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.1
, in order that a record might be preserved, directed us to make a written report in accordance with the results of the discussion. As the plan proposed by me had been adopted, I thought it but proper that I should leave the wording of the report to Messrs. Williamson and Porter. I noticed that in designating the plan to be adopted the expression used was the plan submitted for the approval of the Department. Which plan was not stated. I now pass to a later period. The action in Hampton Roads had been fought. Among the gallant officers of the Virginia, whose names are now historic, was Lieutenant Robt. D. Minor—a very pink of honor. He had been associated with me in ordnance work, and was fully informed as to the facts in this matter. From him I received the following letter. It has never been published and will, I think, be read with interest: Naval hospital, Norfolk, Va., March 11, 1862. Many thanks, my dear Brooke, for your very kind letter, which reached me by t
South Carolina (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.1
er is the extract from a private letter, given above, which, Mr. Scharf says, was published in the Charleston Mercury of April 8th, 1862. Knowing that this extract, the first publication connecting Mr. Porter's name with the Merrimac, had appeared at an earlier date, I wrote to Colonel Joseph Yates, whom I had known as one of the gallant defenders of Charleston, and an accomplished artillerist, requesting him to ascertain the date of publication. He replied as follows: ten-mile Mill, S. C., August 10, 1887. I find that all the files of the Charleston Mercury are in the Charleston library, and not one paper missing. There is a great deal said about the Virginia and her fights, and I find the letter you refer to was published in the Mercury dated March 19th, 1862, no date given to the writing of the same. You have an exact copy, as quoted to me in your letter of August 3d. * * Yours truly, Joseph A. Yates. The order of date of publication of the three extracts from
Providence, R. I. (Rhode Island, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.1
st wise said the concussion and report from the guns would deafen the men. Some said she would not steer; and public opinion generally about here said she would never come out of the dock. You have no idea what I have suffered in mind since I commenced her, but I knew what I was about, and I persevered. Some of her inboard arrangements are of the most intricate character, and have caused me many sleepless nights in making them, but all have turned out right, and thanks are due to a kind Providence whose blessings on my efforts I have many times invoked. I must say I was astonished at the success of the Virginia. She destroyed the Cumberland in fifteen minutes, and in thirty more the Congress was captured. The Minnesota would have shared the same fate, but she got aground, and the Virginia could not get at her. In the Whig of March 22, appeared the following letter: The Virginia. Richmond, March 18, 1862. To the Editor of the Whig: As the brilliant success of the Virginia
Norfolk (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.1
ill, I think, be read with interest: Naval hospital, Norfolk, Va., March 11, 1862. Many thanks, my dear Brooke, for yoer Williamson and Constructor Porter from the navy yard at Norfolk to Richmond for consultation on the same subject generally the department, and a practical mechanic was brought from Norfolk to aid in preparing the drawings and specifications. Thisr Williamson and Constructor Porter, from the navy yard at Norfolk, to Richmond, about the 23d of June, for consultation on tstates that the practical mechanic who was brought up from Norfolk was unable to make the drawings for Lieutenant Brooke, ander Williamson and Constructor Porter from the navy-yard at Norfolk to Richmond, about the 23d of June, for consultation on thones. [extract.] Confederate States steamer Virginia, Norfolk, March 7, 1862. my dear Brooke: * * * The edges of our nowledge would have been of service to the Confederacy. Norfolk had fallen, and the brave Tattnall sought to save the Virg
Minnesota (Minnesota, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.1
r a little before the Congress struck, and when I left the old beauty they were doing grand work with their guns on the Minnesota and shore batteries. I did not think the Yankees on shore would fire at me on my errand to the Congress, but when in determined old Jones fought the action out in his quiet way, giving them thunder all the time. As you supposed, the Minnesota and Roanoke came to the assistance of the two sailing frigates, but the former got aground, and the latter ran—actuallyned tail, and, as the sailors say, pulled foot for Old Point. The St. Lawrence got a dose and cleared out, leaving the Minnesota alone in her sad plight, hard and fast aground, with some tugs trying to lighten her, and taking the fire from our squass of the Virginia. She destroyed the Cumberland in fifteen minutes, and in thirty more the Congress was captured. The Minnesota would have shared the same fate, but she got aground, and the Virginia could not get at her. In the Whig of March 22
Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.1
eeing the failure of Lieutenant Brooke's scheme, Constructor Porter then had another model made like the one he made at Pittsburg in 1847. [Italics mine.] Mr. Porter is mistaken as to the ship-carpenter. Mr. Joseph Pearce (Mr. Porter spells itmade, took it to Richmond personally, and submitted it to Secretary Mallory. As to its being like the one he made at Pittsburg in 1847, I can but say that the only reference to that model I have seen is in Constructor Porter's note of his relatiouilt that way by the Confederate States. Subsequent vessels were made after the model which Constructor Porter made at Pittsburg in 1847, with the ends above the water and protected like the roof. But the model made after the return of the ship-carpenter to the yard, like the one he made at Pittsburg, had its ends under the roof and submerged just two feet, and no vessels were ever built after that model in the Confederate States. When the Merrimac, after conversion, was floated, it wa
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