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Title: Abraham Lincoln : a history
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Nicolay, John G. (John George), 1832-1901 Hay, John, 1838-1905, joint author
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Presidents
Publisher: New York : 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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tover the stern of the Weehawken, struck the waternear the Naliant For twenty minutes the monitorsadvanced slowly and steadily and in perfect silence,until Eodgers, who was in the lead, and whose planhad been thoroughly arranged in advance, attainedthe point he had selected for beginning his attackthree hundred yards from the Confederate ram.As coolly and deliberately as if he were engaged attarget practice he opened fire with his 15-inch gun.The result of his first shot on the Atlanta was sim-ply stupefying. Although it was fired at an angle offifty degrees with the keel, striking the sloping sideof the vessel in the line of her ports, it penetratedher armor, ripped out the wooden backing, coveringthe deck with splinters of iron and Georgia pine,and prostrated about forty men. The secondshot struck the edge of her projection, startingsome plates; the third took off the roof of the pilot-house, injuring both pilots, and knocking senselessthe man at the wheel. One more shot came, thun-
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REAK-AOMIKAL JOHN A. DAHLGREN. DU PONT BEFOKE CHARLESTON 81 deiing ruin and doom, breaking a port shutter and chap. hi.driving the crumbled fragments in through the port.This was all the work of a few minutes. The Atlanta n^lffired only one shell, at long range, before the Wee*hawken opened. The consternation of these appal-ling blows, following in such rapid succession, farmore than the real injury received, had rendered theofficers and crew incapable of further fighting.1 Shehauled down her colors, hoisting the white flag intoken of surrender. The Weehawken had capturedthe greatest naval prize of the war with four shots, infifteen minutes, and the gallant Dowries, in the No-hant, had had no need or opportunity to assist. TheAtlanta was found to be so little hurt that in a fewhours she steamed without assistance to Port Royal.There were only sixteen Confederates wounded; nota man was touched on board the Weehawken. Yet this famous vessel, which made such easywork of any enemy opposed

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