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Title: The blue and the gray, or, The Civil War as seen by a boy : a story of patriotism and adventure in our war for the Union
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: White, Annie Randall
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Contributing Library: State Library of North Carolina, Government & Heritage Library
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COMMANDER FRANKLIN BUCHANAN, COMMANDINGTHE MERRIMAC. HE TELLS ABOUT IT. 173
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V;-;£ FRIGATE CUMBERLAND RAMMED BY 1.1E MERRIMAC. to Washington at once. I didnt wait to be enlisted here, but I knew Uncle Dick, who lived there, could get me onto a war-ship, and he did. Through GEa sea FU3HTE his influence I went on the Cumberland. She was a wooden vessel, but stanch and trm, with a good 174 THE CUMBERLAND SINKS. commander, Lieutenant Morris, whom we all liked. He wasbrave, resolute and determined. The Merrimac, under Com-mander Franklin Buchanan, was trying to raise the blockade,and do us all the harm she could. She was steaming roundHampton Roads, waiting to sink any of the boats that weremaintaining that blockade. Commodore Buchanan evidentlyfancied he had an easy job on hand, but as soon as we sightedthe ungainly-looking craft, our hearts were made glad withorders to pour a broadside into her, which we lost no time indoing. We tried our best to destroy her, but her heavy ironplates withstood the assault. Had she been made of wood, wewould have made a sieve of

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