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The Daily Dispatch: July 23, 1864., [Electronic resource], The Alabama and Kearsarge. (search)
permit visitors on board, and as in fact the ship had been visited daily by a large number of officers and others interested in artillery or in ship building, they were, of course, given full permission to visit the vessel, and take drawing and a measurement of the big guns, their carriages and ramrods. All the party were in uniform but one, and this one we have been told was the Emperor incognito. The names of the officers forming the commission were: Capt Lefeure, Colonel of Artillery, Count Lancia; Marine Engineer, Senneville, and Rear-Admiral Baron Dideiot. Lieut Thornton laid down to these gentlemen the doctrine that rifled guns on board ship were not to be compared to the columbiads for usefulness; that however perfect might be the rifled gun, they always, or nearly always, missed their object at a mile; that the only gun to be relied on was a short range gun, and that the larger the calibre the better. Thus the Alabama went into action with her rifled guns ganged at 2,000