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Title: The Monitor and the Merrimac
Both sides of the story

Author: J. L. Worden et al.

Release Date: February 15, 2008 [EBook #24612]

Language: English

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[Illustration: Courtesy of the Century Co.

THE "MONITOR" THE "MERRIMAC"

THE ENCOUNTER AT SHORT RANGE, MARCH 9, 1862.]

THE MONITOR AND THE MERRIMAC

BOTH SIDES OF THE STORY

TOLD BY
LIEUT. J.L. WORDEN, U.S.N.
LIEUT. GREENE, U.S.N.
OF THE MONITOR

AND

H. ASHTON RAMSAY, C.S.N.
CHIEF ENGINEER OF THE MERRIMAC

ILLUSTRATED

HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS
NEW YORK AND LONDON
MCMXII

COPYRIGHT, 1912, BY HARPER & BROTHERS

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

PUBLISHED MARCH, 1912

CONTENTS

CHAP. PAGE

Introduction vii

I. THE MONITOR AND THE MERRIMAC 1
_Told by Lieutenant Worden and Lieutenant S.D. Greene of
the Monitor_

II. THE MERRIMAC AND THE MONITOR 25
_Told by H. Ashton Ramsay, Major C.S.A., Chief Engineer
of the Merrimac_

III. THE LAST OF THE MONITOR 67
_By an eye-witness, Rear-Admiral E.W. Watson, U.S.N._

INTRODUCTION

This is the first-hand story of what was done and seen and felt on each
side in the battle of the _Monitor_ and the _Merrimac_. The actual
experiences on both vessels are pictured, in one case by the commander
of the _Monitor_, then a lieutenant, and the next in rank, Lieutenant
Greene, and in the other by Chief-Engineer Ramsay of the _Merrimac_.
Clearly such a record of personal experiences has a place by itself in
the literature of the subject.

It is quite unnecessary to d