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Identifier: abrahamlincolnba01newy (find matches)
Title: Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War
Year: 1886 (1880s)
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Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Generals Generals
Publisher: (New York, N.Y.) : (The Century Co.)
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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i-nent danger that theship would founder.The steam-pumpscould not be operatedbecause the fires hadbeen nearly e.xtin-guished, and the en-gine-room was unin-habitable on accountof the suftbcating gaswith which it was filled.The hand-pumps werethen rigged andworked, but they hadnot enough force tothrow the water outthrough the top of theturret,—the only open-ing,— and it was use-less to bail, as we hadto ))ass the buckets upthrough the turret,which made it a verylong operation. For- But there are other leaders who will also be startled and admonished by the booming of the guns from theimpregnable iron turret. Downini^ Street will hardlv view with indifference this last Yankee notion, thismonitor. To the Lords of the -Admiralty the new craft will be a monitor suggesting doubts as to the proprietyof completing those four steel-clad sliips at three and-a-half millions apiece. On these and many similargrounds I propose to name the new battery Monitor. Your obedient servant, T. Ericsson.
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\nEW SHOwi;,!^ .. .-.^. ur SHOT ON THE MONITOR TURRET. (FKO.MjRAPH TAKEN SOON AFTER THE ENGAGEMENT.) ich the vessel was built. Anpe is usually maileby cuttinffthree circles one .ibove another and intersecting, and then (The ridges shown in the nearer port are significant of the hasteopening of this shape is usually made by cutting three circles one .abo trimming the edges to an oval. In this instance there was no time for the trimming process,ilesigned that the armament should be 15-inch guns, but as these were not to be had in time, thegrens were substituted.—ED.) 756 IN THE MONITOR TURRET.

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