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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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r delay was met at any point;all progressed satisfactorily; every part senton board from the workshops fitted exactlythe place for which it was intended. As a con-sequence of these favorable circumstances,the battery, with steam-machinery complete,was launched in one hundred days from thelaying of the keel-plate. It should be men-tioned that at the moment of starting on theinclined ways toward its destined element, thenovel fighting-machine was named Monitor. Before entering on a description of thisfi,e;htiii<r.,nachiitc I propose to answer the ques-tion fre()uently asked: What circumstancesdictated its size and ))eculiar construction ? 1. The work on the Merrimac had pro-gressed so far that no structure of large di-mensions could po.ssibly be completed in timeto meet her. 2. The well-natured plan of erecting acitadel of considerable dimensions on the am- • Sec alio articles on the fight between the Monitor an.i the Merrimac,in iHK Ce.vtcrv for March, 1885.—KurroR. THE MONITORS
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THE MONITOR WEEHAWKEN CAPTURING THE CONFEDERATE IRON-CLAD RAM ATLANTA,WAKSAW SOUND, GEORGIA, JCNE I7, 1863. pie deck of the razeed Meniinac admittedof a battery of heavy ordnance so formidablethat no vessel of the ordinary type, of smalldimensions, could withstand its fire. 3. The battery designed by the naval con-structor of the Confederate States, in addi-tion to the advantage of ample room andnumerous guns, presented a formidable frontto an opponents fire by being inclined to sucha degree that shot would be readily deflected.Again, the inclined sides, composed of heavytimbers well braced, were covered with twothicknesses of bar iron, ingeniously combined,well calculated to resist the spherical shot pe-culiar to the Dahlgren and Rodman systemof naval ordnance adopted by the UnitedStates Navy. 4. The shallow waters on the coast ofthe Southern States called for very lightdraught; hence the upper circumference of thepropeller of the battery would be exposed tothe enemys fire unless tho

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