. Die Bibliothek der amerikanischen Geschichte, Literatur und Biographie .. . R-Boote öffneten ein wütendes Feuer, unter dessen Decke die Schiffe den Fluss gerade aufwärts dampften. Die Festungen öffneten sich auf sie mit jeder Waffe, ein perfekter Sturm von Schrotthund Shell, und die Schiffe antworteten mit vollen Breiten. Fünfhundert Kanonen donnernden. Ein Schiff wurde gesperrt und fiel zurück. Der Rest schwitzt in einer Flammenwolke. Bevor sie an den Festungen vorbeikamen, kamen Feuerschiffe auf sie herunter, und eiserne Kanonenboote griffen sie an. Die Varuna, Kapitän DIE GESCHICHTE VON AMERIKA. I6r Boggs, wurde von fünf Rebellen Kanonenboote umgeben, und versenkte sie al

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. The library of American history, literature and biography .. . r-boats opened a furious fire, under cover of which the ships steamed straight upthe river. The forts opened on them with every gun, a perfect storm of shotand shell, and the ships replied with full broadsides. Five hundred cannonwere thundering. One ship was disabled and dropped back. The rest swepton In a cloud of flame. Before they were past the forts, fire-ships came downupon them, and iron-clad gunboats attacked them. The Varuna, Captain THE STORY OF AMERICA. i6r Boggs, was surrounded by five rebel gunboats, and sank them all. As the lastof them sank, a sixth, a huge iron-clad ram, came rushing upon the Varuna.Boggs saw he could not escape it, so he turned the Varuna so as to receivethe blow squarely amidships. The ram crushed her like an egg-shell, and in afew minutes she sank. But her fearful broadsides, at such close range, riddledthe ram, and the two went down together. In an hour and a half, eleven rebelgunboats were sent to the bottom, and the fleet was past the forts. Next. CUbHINGS I..SX SHOT. A stirring incident of the Civil War that happened during Picketts famous charge at Gettysburg, when Lieutenaot Gushing, being mortally wounded, reached up, fired his gun, and then expired. morning Farragut raised the national flag above the captured city of NewOrleans. This tremendous conflict was not, however, the most significant of thatyear. There was another which, in a single hour, revolutionized the art ofnaval warfare. When, at the outbreak of the war, the Norfolk Navy-yard hadbeen destroyed to keep it from falling into rebel hands, one ship partially escapedthe flames. This was the great frigate Merrimac, probably the finest ship inII i62 THE MONITOR AND MERRIMAC the whole navy. The Confederates took her hull, which remained uninjured, and covered it completely with a sloping roof of iron plates four inches thick, backed with heavy timbers, put a great iron ram at her bow, and fitted her with

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