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Identifier: abrahamlincolnba01newy (find matches)
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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he cornersby three-inch bolts pas.sing through the iron-))lated deck and deck-beams. The wheel,which by means of ordinary tiller-ropes oper-ates the rudder, is placed within the pilot-house, its axle being supported by a bracketsecured to the iron blocks as shown by theillustration. An ordinary ladder resting on thebottom of the battery leads to the grated floorof the jMlot-house. In order to afford the com-manding officer and the pilot a clear view ofobjects before and on the sides of the battery,the first and second iron blocks from the topare kept apart by ))acking pieces at the cor-ners; long and narrow sight-holes beingthereby formed extending round the pilot-house, and giving a clear view which sweepsround the entire horizon, all but that partwhicli is hidden by the turret, hardly twelvedegrees on each side of the line of keel. Re-garding the adequacy of the elongated sight-hole formed between the iron blocks in themanner dcsf;ribed, it shr)uld be borne in mind THE MONITORS. 283
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■ n ( n r n1 r r r: nil i 1 r I :l.NTKAL sf.LIloN, SAMIO Il.AN. that an opening of five-eighths of an inchaftbrds a vertical view eighty feet high at adistance of only two hundred yards. More isnot needed, a fact established during trialsinstituted by experts before the constructordelivered the battery to the Government.Unfortunately the sight-holes were subse-quently altered, the iron blocks being raisedand the opening between them increased tosuch an extent that at sea, to quote Lieuten-ant Greenes report, the water entered withsuch force as to knock the helmsman com- pilot-house loose, so as to be readily pushedup from below, was that of aftbrding egressto the crew in case of accident. Had the mon-itor 7dV//w.f<?//, commanded by Captain T. .\.T.Graven, when struck by a torpedo during theconflict in Mobile Bay, August 5, 1864, beenprovided with a similar loose jjlate over themain hatch, the fearful calamity of drowningofficers and crew would have been prevented.In referring to

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