 | United States. Navy Dept - 1863 - 536 pages
...struck her on her slanting side without producing any apparent effect. By the time she had fired her third shell the little Monitor had come down upon her, placing herself between us, and compelled her to change her position, in doing which she grounded ; and again I poured into... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - 1863 - 972 pages
...struck her on her slanting side without producing any apparent effect. By the time she had fired her third shell the little Monitor had come down upon her, placing herself between us, and compelled her to change her position, in doing which she grounded ; and again I poured into... | |
 | United States. Navy Department - 1864 - 638 pages
...struck her. on her slanting side without producing any apparent effect. By the time she had fired her third shell the little Monitor had come down upon her, placing herself between us, and compelled her to change her position, in doing which she grounded ; and again I poured into... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1861 - 852 pages
...struck her on her slanting side without producing any apparent effect. By the time she had lircd her third shell, the little Monitor had come down upon her, placing herself between us, and compelled her to change her position, in doing which she grounded, and again I poured into... | |
 | John Thomas Scharf - 1886 - 934 pages
...official report of Commander Van Brunt on this point is as follows: " By the time she had fired her third shell the little Monitor had come down upon her, placing herself between us, and compelled her to change her position; in doing which she grounded, and again 1 poured into... | |
 | Robert Alonzo Brock, Virginia Historical Society - 1887 - 402 pages
...struck her on her slanting side without producing any apparent effect. By the time she had fired her third shell the little Monitor had come down upon her, placing herself between us, and compelled her to change her position, in doing which she grounded, and again I poured into... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1889 - 686 pages
...ship on fire. A second shell exploded the boiler of the tugboat Dragon. But by the time she had fired the third shell, the little Monitor had come down...their feet; but it only left a trifling dent in her side-armor and some splinters of the Merrimac to be added to the visitors' trophies. It was now that... | |
 | John W. H. Porter - 1892 - 388 pages
...struck her on her slanting side without producing any apparent effect. By the time she had fired her third shell the little Monitor had come down upon her, placing herself between us, and compelled her to change her position, in doing which she grounded, and I again poured into... | |
 | 1922 - 496 pages
...Report of IG Van Brunt, Captain Commanding USS Minnesota: "By the time she (the Merrimac) had fired her third shell, the little Monitor had come down upon her, placing herself between us, and compelled her (the Merrimac) to change her position, in doing which she grounded. As soon as... | |
 | United States. Naval War Records Office - 1898 - 930 pages
...struck her on her slanting side without producing any apparent effect. By the time she had fired her third shell the little Monitor had come down upon her, placing herself between us, and compelled her to change her position, in doing which she grounded, and again I poured into... | |
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... and was informed by my marine officer, who was stationed on the poop, that at least fifty solid shot struck her on her slanting side without producing any apparent effect. By the time she had fired her third shell the little Monitor had come down... 
