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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 32. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The ironclad ram Virginia -Confederate States Navy, [from the Richmond, Va. , News-leader, April 1 , 1904 .] (search)
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 32. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.50 (search)
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 32. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.51 (search)
Historic Waters of Virginia.
[from the Richmond, Va., times, Dec. 30, 1891.]
The battle in Hampton Roads as viewed by an eye witness.
The achievements of the Virginia.
An interesting Paper—The improvised Confederate Naval fleet. By Ex-Governor Wm. E. Cameron.
[See ante pp. 243-9, The Ironclad Virginia.—Ed.]
on Fortress Monroe, which, under the then existing conditions of ordnance and of naval architecture, practically controlled the entrance to Chesapeake Bay and Hampton Roads, while heavy batteries at Newport News, at the mouth of James river, prohibited communication by water between the Confederate forces at Richmond and Norfolk.
occupation of these waterways (as well as in prosecuting a cherished scheme in dominating the mouth of the Mother of Waters, destroying the Federal shipping in Hampton Roads, isolating and perhaps starving out the garrison at Fortress Monroe, and ultimately obtaining free ingress and egress via the capes for ships of war and commer