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The Daily Dispatch: April 6, 1863., [Electronic resource], A Federal naval Officer's opinion of iron-clads. (search)
A Federal naval Officer's opinion of iron-clads. --A naval officer, whose letter is published in the Albany (N. Y.) Argus, furnishes an interesting account of the Confederate raid at Charleston, and of the operations of the Montana in the Ogeechee river. The iron-clads notwithstanding they possess many defects that are difficult to remedy, are regarded by him as quite successful, so far as their fighting qualities are concerned. As sea going vessels, they are regarded to be so very unsafe that the writer declares that he "would rather go into ten actions than to make a passage at sea in one of them." On the question of their effectiveness in the reduction of fortifications he says: "I would guarantee to hold a sand battery like that at Genesis Point--Fort McAllister--against a dozen of them. Two of them would demolish Fort Sumter, or any square case-mated stone or brick fort in two hours. But sand forts are different things, particularly where the guns are isolated and far apa