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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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me countries it was lookedupon as an event of the high-est importance, since it es-,tablished the fact,practicallythat armor-plating of thesame thickness as that of LaGloirc and the /T^z/r/Vr couldbe readily pierced, even when)placed at an inclination oflonly twenty-nine degrees tolthe horizon. Moreover, the)shot from the WeehawketAstruck at an angle of fiftydegrees to the line of keel,!thereby generating a com- ■pound angle, causing the line iof the shot to approach the!face of the armor-plate within jtwenty-two degrees. The!great amount of iron andjwood dislodged by the fifteen-inch spherical ■shot entering the citadel, protected by four- \inch armor-plating and eighteen-inch woodibacking, was shown by the fact that forty men;on the Atlantas gun-deck were prostrated;by the concussion, fifteen being wounded,;The discomfiture of the marvelous ves- principally by splinters ; a circumstance read-1sels before Charleston, however, did not ily e\i)lained, since penetration at an angle!
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INTERIOR VIEW OF THE TURRET OF A SEA-GOING MONITOR. The compact form of the gun-carriages, the simplicity of the massive port-stoppers, andthe enormous size of the spheric.-il projectiles (15-iiich diameter) surprised naval experts. the loss of that prestige wliich your iron-clads haveconferred on the nation ahroail. .\ single shot may■;ink a ship, while a humlred rounds cannot silence afort, as you have proveil on the Ogeechee. The immu-table laws of force and resistance do not favor yourenterprise. Chance, therefore, can alone save you. impair thtrir fitness to fight other battles. Itwill be recollected that the Wcchawkcii, com-manded by the late Admiral John Rodgers,defeated and captured the Confederate ramAtlanta, in Warsaw Sound, June 17, 1863,ten weeks after the battle of Charleston;consequently, previous to the engagements inwhich this monitor participated, as reportedby Admiral Dahlgren. The sjjlendid victoryin Warsaw Sound did not attract much atten- of twenty-two degrees m

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