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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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y decreasing her mobility and her speedtofour knots. The repairs were not completeduntil the 4th of April, owing to our want ofresources and difficulty of securing workmen.On the nth we steamed down the harbor tothe Roads with six gun-boats, fully expectingto meet the J/rw/Avagain and other vessels; forwe knew their fleet had been largclv reenforced, 748 THE FIRST FIGHT OF IROX-CIADS. among others by the Vanderbilt, a powerfulside-wheel steamer fitted as a ram. We wereprimed for a desj^rate tussle; but to oursurprise we had the Roads to ourselves. Weexchanged a few shots with the Rip-Rapsbatteries, but the Monitor with the other ves-sels of the fleet remained below Fortress tenant Barney in the Janicstotvn to go in and <bring them out. This was promptly and success-fully accomplished, under a fire from the forts, jTwo were brigs loaded with supplies for the)army. The capture of these vessels, withinjgun-shot of their fleet, did not affect their!movements. As the Jamestown towed her
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THE mERRIMAC DRIVING THE CONGRESS FROM HER ANCHORAGE. Monroe, in Chesapeake Bay, where we couldnot get at them except by passing betweenthe forts. The day before going down. CommodoreTatnall had written to Secretary Mallory, Isee no chance for me but to pass the fortsand stnke elsewhere, and I shall be gratifiedby your authority to do so. This freedomof action was never granted, and probablywisely, for the result of an action with theMonitor and fleet, even if we ran the gauntletof the fire of the forts successfully, was morethan doutjtful, and any disaster would haveexposed Norfolk and James River, and prob-ably would have resulted in the loss of Rich-mond. For equally good reasons the Monitoracted on the defensive; for if she had beenout of the way, r;eneral McClellans base andfleet of transports in York River would havebeen endangered. Observing three merchantvessels at anchor close in shore and within thebar at Hampton, the commoflore ordered Lieu- prizes under the stem of the Eng

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