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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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IHE FlRSr FIGHT OF IRON-CLADS. MARCH g. i86: I^HE engagement in Hampton Roads onthe Sth of March, 1862, between the Con-federate iron-clad //Vx////(i, or (as she is knownat the North) the Mcrrimac, and the InitedStates wooden fleet, and that next day be-tween the Iin^iiia and the Monitor, was,in its resuUs. in some respects the most mo-mentous naval conflict ever witnessed. Nobattle was ever more widely discussed orproduced a greater sensation. It revolii-tionizeil the navies of the world. Line-of-battle ships, those huge, overgrown craft,carr)ing from eighty to one hundred andtwenty guns and from five hundred to twelvehundred men, which, from the destructionof the Spanish Armada to our time, haddone most of the fighting, deciding the fateof empires, were at once universally con-demned as out of date. Rams and iron-cladswere in future to decide all na\al warfare.
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TMK fXITED STATES FRIGATE MEKRIMAC BEFOREAXD APTKK CO.SVERSION IHTO AN IRON-CLAD. In this battle old things passed away, andthe experience of a thousand years of battleand breeze was forgotten. The naval su-l)remacy of England vanished in the smokeof this fight, it is true, only to reappear someyears later more commanding than ever. Theeffect of the news w as best described by theLondon Times, which said: Whereas wehad available for immediate purposes one hun-dred and forty-nine first-class war-ships: wehave now two, these two being the Warriorand her sister Ironside. There is not now aship in the English navy apart from thesetwo that it would not be madness to trust toan engagement with that little Monitor^ TheAdmiralty at once proceeded to reconstructthe navy, cutting down a nmnber of their lar-gest ships and converting them into turret orbroadside iron-clads. The same results wereproduced in France, which had but one sea-going iron-clad, La Gloire,and this one, like the Warrior,was

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