Download or read book Battle Between the Merrimac and the Monitor Classic Reprint written by Elijah Wilson Flake and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-02 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Battle Between the Merrimac and the Monitor Rimac during the engagement between her and the three wooden ships that blockaded the James River, and also the next day between the Merri mac and the Monitor. The Merrimac was also called The Virginia and the Monitor was also called The Ericson Battery. There being so many survivors and last survivor of the Merri mac, 1 wish to prove my claim by living witnesses that l was one of the boys who took part in the first battle between iron clads in the history of the world. By calling on Mr. W K. Boggan, our Clerk of the Superior Court, he will show you a list of the names of Anson Guards and where my name appears as having been transferred to the Navy. Our regiment was then stationed near, Smithfield, Virginia, not very far from Portsmouth, where the Merrimac was being made ready for the coming con ict. But if I had no further proof, the fact that l was transferred to the Navy would not make good my claim that l was one of the crew of the Merrimac, for I might have been sent to some other port and some other ship and still have been in the Navy. My next witness. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."
Download or read book BATTLE BETWEEN THE MERRIMAC AND THE MONITOR written by ELIJAH WILSON. FLAKE and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Monitor and the Merrimac From the Twelve Decisive Battles of the War Classic Reprint written by William Swinton and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-08 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Monitor and the Merrimac, From the Twelve Decisive Battles of the War About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Monitor and the Merrimac written by John Lorimer Worden and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-17 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Monitor and the Merrimac: Both Sides of the Story But the main result was reached. The Union fleet was saved. The career of the Merrimac was checked. N 0 Union vessel was destroyed after the Monitor appeared. It seems prop er to note these facts here, in view of the fact that Mr. Ramsay's fresh and striking story of the M errimac, which is presented for the first time, enters upon the details of the battle more fully than the narrative of Lieutenant Worden and Lieutenant Greene. Fortunately the discussion has become academic in the half-cen. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Iron Thunder written by Avi and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2010-02-12 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Iron Thunder
Download or read book A Comprehensive Sketch of the Merrimac and Monitor Naval Battle written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-08 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Comprehensive Sketch of the Merrimac and Monitor Naval Battle: Giving an Accurate Account of the Most Important Naval Engagement in the Annals of War But the great and lasting issue of the battle between the Merrimac and the Monitor is the fact that it revolutionized the Navies of the world. This was the first fight of iron-clad vessels, and its effect was to pronounce the doom of line-of-battle ships, and to demonstrate that rams and iron-clads were in future to decide all naval warfare. Another remarkable feature of this combat to prove the hardihood and gallantry of the men engaged, is the circumstance that both of the vessels were in a great measure mere experiments, and upon experimental trips when they met and fought, and that to the danger from fire and sword was added to one of them, the Monitor, the peril of foundering at sea. Before the summer of 1861 had passed, both sides engaged in the fratricidal struggle of North against South had awakened to a realization of the stubbornness of the conflict, and knew that the combat would be long and bitter. All thoughts of an early cessation of hostilities had been put aside, and the entire country was under tribute to furnish brains, men and money for an extended and hazardous campaign. Three years before, naval Officers and marine constructors had been much interested in the successful application of armor-plating to the steam-frigate La Gloire of the fleet of Napoleon III. Which was immediately followed by the Admiralty of England similarly fitting out the Warrior and [ronsides. None of these iron-clad vessels had been tested in actual warfare, however, and it was therefore as an experiment that Lieutenant George M. Brooke, who had resigned from the United States Navy when the South seceded, suggested to secretary-of-war Mallory of the Confederacy, that the frigate [vlerrimaa which had been burned and sunk at Norfolk when the Federal troops abandoned the Navy Yard. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The First Iron Clad Naval Engagement in the World written by E. V. White and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-22 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The First Iron-Clad Naval Engagement in the World: History of the Facts of the Great Naval Battle Between the Merrimac-Virginia, C. S. N. And the Ericsson Monitor, U. S. N. Hampton Roads, March 8 and 9, 1862 As citizens of a government which has aptly and happily been described as an indissoluble union of indestructible states we may contemplate the historic battles of our Civil War as most impressive manifestations of the patriotism, valor and wonderful resources of the-participants therein. And on an issue like the present we shall find something to inspire love of coun try, and admiration for and confidence in the communities that make up the composite people of our great nation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Download or read book War Memories of Fort Monroe and Vicinity written by H. K. W. Patterson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-07 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from War Memories of Fort Monroe and Vicinity: Containing an Account of the Memorable Battle Between the Merrimac and Monitor, the Incarceration of Jefferson Davis, and Other Topics In presenting this little work to the Public, the author has endeavored to give an answer to questions, which have been constantly asked by visitors to the Fort, concerning its extent, area, armament, and a hundred different points, which we have endeavored to elucidate. We are indebted to several sources for our information, to all of whom we are grateful, but we Wish particularly to ex press our appreciation of the valuable information concern ing, The _national Soldiers' Home, Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute, and Hampton, gleaned from the Guide Book compiled by C. W. Betts, Esq., the gentlemanly and accommodating Manager of the Normal School Press. To him, and one other source, Lieut. Col. John H. Craven, U. S. A., the Medical attendant of Jefferson Davis, we would especially return thanks. We send this book forth to the public, ' and bespeak for it a generous patronage. Should we succeed in satisfying the want it is intended to supply, its author's object will have been accomplished. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Pennsylvania Commandery of the Naval Order of the United States written by Richard S. Collum and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-06-22 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Pennsylvania Commandery of the Naval Order of the United States: The Description of the Fight Between the Monitor and Merrimac on the 9th of March, 1862 The distinguished guests were Hon. C. A. Boutelle, Chairman of the House Naval Committee, Rear Admiral Bancroft Gherardi, U. S. N., and Hon. Charles F. Warwick, Mayor of Philadelphia. The following description was given by Major R. S. Collum, the Historian of the Pennsylvania Commandery, who was an eye witness of the historic struggle. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Virginia Merrimac Monitor Engagement and a Complete History of the Operations of These Two Historic Vessels in Hampton Roads and Adjacent Waters written by Joseph Gardner Fiveash and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-14 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Virginia-(Merrimac) Monitor Engagement, and a Complete History of the Operations of These Two Historic Vessels in Hampton Roads and Adjacent Waters: C. S. S. Virginia, March 8-May 11, 1862, U. S. S. Monitor, March 9-January 2d, 1863 In presenting the following pages 'descriptive of the revolution that occurred in naval warfare on the 8th day of March, 1862, when the Confederate iron-clad steamer Virginia destroyed the Federal frigates Cumberland and Congress, no statement will be made that cannot be verified by official records, nor will any illustration be printed that is not accurate in every detail, as far as it is possible to obtain accuracy by describing to an artist that which you desire to be transferred to canvas. 'with the exception of the battle between the iron-clads on the 9th of March, the challenge of Commodore Tatnall to battle on the 11th of April, and the destruction of the Vir ginia on the 11th of May, the writer witnessed every movement that is depicted, and others not so important. The small battle scene on the frontispiece is especially commended to the reader for examination, as it presents the exact appearance of the Virginia when she reached the Navy Yard Sunday afternoon after the fight. Her boats and an chor had been shot away, her armor had dents in it in many places, her smoke stack had been riddled until it resembled somewhat a huge nut meg grater, and her flag, which had been shot away, was fastened to a boarding pike, which in turn was made fast to the smoke-stack. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Story of the Confederate States Ship Virginia Once Merrimac written by William Norris and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-05 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Story of the Confederate States Ship Virginia (Once Merrimac): Her Victory Over AN article in the Army and Navy Journal, June 13th, entitled The Monitor and the Merrimac, is one of the very choicest specimens yet produced of the Northern mode of manufacturing history. A grand victory is claimed for the Monitor, whereas a more palpable, undeniable defeat shall never have been recorded in naval history. The proofs are being prepared by those who were actors in the drama, who will produce facts and figures, chapter and verse, bearings and distances. In the meantime here is a brief statement (written hastily and from memory), by a Confederate soldier, who, from a safe position saw the fight. It is intended only as a light four-pounder rocket; several 200 pound chilled bolts, conical, will follow. We must now settle all disputed questions and reach the facts, for it is time that the great fight should pass into history. It remains to be seen whether it would not have been wiser in the Federals to have remained content, with our tacit acquiescence (to our shame be it said), in their brazen claim, as at first slowly and insidiously set up, to a drawn battle. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Duel Between the First Ironclads written by William C. Davis and published by Doubleday. This book was released on 2012-05-09 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One was called "a tin can on a shingle"; the other, "a half-submerged crocodile." Yet, on a March day in 1862 in Hampton Roads, Virginia, after a five-hour duel, the U.S.S. Monitor and the C.S.S. Virginia (formerly the U.S.S. Merrimack) were to change the course of not only the Civil War but also naval warfare forever. Using letters, diaries, and memoirs of men who lived through the epic battle of the Monitor and the Merrimack and of those who witnessed it from afar, William C. Davis documents and analyzes this famous confrontation of the first two modern warships. The result is a full-scale history that is as exciting as a novel. Besides a thorough discussion of the designs of each ship, Davis portrays come of the men involved in the building and operation of America's first ironclads-John Ericsson, supreme egoist and engineering genius who designed the Monitor; John Brooke, designer of the Virginia; John Worden, the well-loved captain of the Monitor; Captain Franklin Buchanan of the Virginia; and a host of other men on both Union and Confederate sides whose contributions make this history as much a story of men as of ships and war.
Download or read book The Monitor and the Merrimac written by Samuel Dana Greene and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-04 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Monitor and the Merrimac" (Both sides of the story) by Samuel Dana Greene, Eugene Winslow Watson, H. Ashton Ramsay, John Lorimer Worden. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Download or read book The Fight Between the Monitor and Merrimac written by and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Brief Sketch of the First Monitor and Its Inventor written by Eben P. Dorr and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-03 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Brief Sketch of the First Monitor and Its Inventor: A Paper Read Before the Buffalo Historical Society, January 5, 1874 Monitor. Certainly nothing occurred during the war that exercised such a vast influence upon its ultimate results. What the battle of Gettysburg was to the Army at a later day, the fight between the Monitor and the Merrimac was to the Navy; both were turning points in the Rebellion. Under the gallant worden the Monitor in 1862 fixed the boundaries of Rebellion by water at Hampton Roads; sixteen months later, the brave but now lamented meade, on the well-fought and bloody field of Gettysburg, with the chivalrous, often whipped but never-daunted Army of the Potomac, fixed its boundaries by land beyond Pennsylvania. Both battles said to Rebellion, Thus far shalt thou go, but no further; removing the theatre of its action back upon the territory that originated it, and in the end crushing it forever. In my opinion the people of this country have never attached sufficient importance to the advent and services of the first Monitor, and the grand part she performed in the war, at an important crisis, when our very existence hung as it were upon a thread. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book 50 Classic War Novels written by Golgotha Press and published by BookCaps Study Guides. This book was released on 2011 with total page 15537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of 50 classic war novels with an active table of contents to make it easy to quickly find the book you are looking for.Works include:The Airlords of Han by Philip Francis NowlanAlroy by Benjamin DisraeliAmong the Pines by James R. GilmoreBear Trap by Alan Edward NourseThe Big Time by Fritz Reuter LeiberThe Black Arrow by Robert Louis StevensonBreed Nor Birth by Dallas McCord ReynoldsThe Chainbearer by J. FENIMORE COOPERComing Home by Edith WhartonDangerous Days by Mary Roberts RinehartThe Destroyers by Gordon Randall GarrettFinished by H. Rider HaggardFor the Temple by G. A. HentyThe Gods are Athirst by Anatole FranceThe Green Beret by Thomas Edward PurdomGreenmantle by John BuchanThe Highest Treason by Randall GarrettIn the Track of the Troops by R.M. BallantyneJimmie Higgins by Upton SinclairThe Kangaroo Marines by R. W. CampbellLa Vendée by Anthony TrollopeThe Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come by John Fox, Jr.The Long Roll by Mary JohnstonMemoirs of a Cavalier by Daniel DefoeMistress Wilding by Rafael SabatiniMorale by Murray LeinsterMr. Midshipman Easy by Frederick MarryatMr. Standfast by John BuchanOkewood of the Secret Service by Valentine WilliamsOn the Irrawaddy by G. A. HentyOne Man's Initiation--1917 by John Dos PassosOne of Ours by Willa CatherThe Pathfinder by James Fenimore CooperPaths of Glory by Irvin S. CobbPushbutton War by Joseph P. MartinoThe Red Badge of Courage by Stephen CraneRemember the Alamo by Amelia E. BarrRide Proud, Rebel! by Andre Alice NortonSea Warfare by Rudyard KiplingShock Absorber by E.G. von WaldThe Spy by James Fenimore CooperSt. Elmo by Augusta J. EvansSword and the Atopen by Taylor H. Greenfield
