{"id":433,"date":"2012-03-13T10:00:35","date_gmt":"2012-03-13T14:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-shannon\/?p=433"},"modified":"2021-12-05T10:13:30","modified_gmt":"2021-12-05T15:13:30","slug":"may-1-2-1862","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-home\/2012\/03\/13\/may-1-2-1862\/","title":{"rendered":"May 1 – 2, 1862"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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\nMay<\/span>
\n1<\/span> 1862<\/span>
\nFortress Munroe
\nThis<\/span> morning we sailed
\nfrom Cheeseman Creek where we have
\nbeen quickly anchored since the 24th,
\nand reached here about 11a.m. The
\nmain object of the trip is to get water
\nbut we are going to make it as pleasant
\nan excursion as possible. Col. Howland
\nand his lady accompany us.Ship Point 2.<\/span>
\nWe<\/span> returned from Fortress
\nMunroe this morning. Yesterday so far
\nas sight seeing [sic] goes was the pleasantest
\nand most interesting May day that
\nI ever passed. We visited the Fortress
\nwere introduced to Genl. Wools a. a. G. +
\nexamined the water battery. This is
\na most formidable structure and it
\nfills one with awe to contemplate
\nit. I was reminded of the collection<\/p>\n
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of statuary that would be seen
\nby entering the halls of some old
\nEnglish castle\u2014tall knights encased
\nin their steel armors standing in
\nlong rows up and down the hall
\nmotionless, grim and silent. It
\nis surely a sight worth seeing. For
\nthe first time I understood the meaning
\nof casemate.[?]
\nPassing<\/span> round this battery
\nat the right we come in sight of
\nthe celebrated Union and Lincoln
\nguns that are mounted very near
\nthe water\u2019s edge. These are perfectly
\nastounding. No idea can be formed
\nof them without seeing. Weighing
\n50,000 lbs and throwing a ball that
\nweighs 432 lbs these twin monsters
\nstand alone and beyond everything
\nwe have. They may soon be excelled,
\nand it would not surprise us
\nif they were; for the science of<\/p>\n

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projectiles is making rapid strides.
\nReturning<\/span> to the Fortress I pick
\na few buttercups and wander off
\nto the entrance gate. Twenty minutes
\nafterward I was on board of the Spaulding enjoying the felicity of a bath. Col.
\nHowland\u2019s candy had given me a
\nsevere headache. A little sleep however
\nprepared me for dinner, when it was
\ndecided how to spend the afternoon.
\n“How<\/span> many can your sail-
\nboat carry\u201d said I to the 1st. mate of
\nthe S. R. Spaulding after dinner. \u201cOh! a
\ndozen\u201d was his reply. Fifteen minutes
\nafterward and our little party were
\ntossing over the waves toward that-now-
\n-all-engaging-wonder of the world\u2014the
\nMonitor. The curiosity of every one [sic]
\nwas aroused. We were going to visit
\nthe Monitor. And to us that was
\npleasure enough to cancel a life-time
\nof discomfort.<\/p>\n

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We were not long in reaching her
\niron sides. The officers gave us a
\nhearty welcome and seemed to take
\nthe highest pleasure in explaining.
\nOur attention was first called to the
\nTurret, + the eight plates of thickness a
\nsection of which could be most
\nplainly seen at the port holes.
\nWe observed the effect of the shot which
\nshe received in her encounter with
\nthe Merrimac. There was a dent
\nmade by a hundred pound shot
\nat the distance of five yards. Can
\nit be possible? Here we see the
\neffect of a ricochet shot that tore up
\nthe edge of the plates. Here is another
\npartly below water line. That is the
\nPilot House and those are the two
\nholes for sight. So it was there that
\nLieut. Worden received the injury to
\nhis eyes, that came near depriving us of
\none of our most valuable officers.<\/p>\n

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Imagine a low square box made of
\neight inch joice [?] and these joice [?] solid
\niron and there you may get an idea
\nof the massive weight and strength
\nof the Pilot house. Since the fight
\nwith the Merrimac they have made
\nit even stronger by means of an iron
\nplated support that extends all around.
\nThe<\/span> Turret and Pilot House
\nare all that attract ones [sic] attention
\nabove deck, if we except the little
\ninsignificant smoke stack; and so having
\nseen these we follow the officer below.
\nA descent of several steps, and we
\nare in the midst of the ship\u2019s crew
\nsome sitting unengaged, + others sewing
\nor reading\u2014but all very quiet. Passing
\nto the left through this group we enter
\nthe Turret, by ascending another flight
\nof steps.
\nThe<\/span> engineer first calls our
\nattention to the revolving of the Turret.<\/p>\n

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He pushed a lever forward pretty much as
\nan engineer does on board one of
\nour locomotives, and immediately a
\nlow continual rumbling begins. We are
\nunconscious of motion\u2014cannot realize
\nit till, as directed, we sight along one
\nof the splendid hundred pounders through
\nthe port hole and then we \u201csee it.\u201d The
\nwhole horizon is swept entirely around
\nand every object passes swiftly before
\nus. The officer explained the manner
\nof working the guns. So soon as one
\nwas discharged the Turret was made
\nto revolve away from the enemy
\nand so the gunners were unexposed
\nin loading.
\nI<\/span> never saw more splendid
\nguns than these hundred pounders.
\nWhile in the Turret I spoke with
\nthe seaman on duty there and he
\ngave me a piece of the timber of
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of the caps used in discharging the pieces.
\nI am preserving them carefully as relics
\nof the war.
\nPassing<\/span> from the Turret below again,
\nthe officer carries us into the cabin, which
\nwe find to be the most splendidly furnished.
\nFrom there we go into the Pilot House and
\nsee where the helmsman has to stand. Beneath
\nthe Pilot House are arrangements for
\nraising the anchor.
\nLeaving<\/span> the Monitor we visited
\nthe Galena where Capt. Rodgers treated
\nus very kindly showing us everything
\nof interest.
\nNext<\/span> we visited the Stevens
\nbattery or the Saugatuck and
\nwas very politely shown everything
\nof interest about her.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n

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