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Title: Naval battles of America; great and decisive contests on the sea from colonial times to the present, including our glorious victories at Manila and Santiago;
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Shippen, Edward, 1826- (from old catalog)
Subjects: United States. Navy
Publisher: Philadelphia, P. W. Ziegler co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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Rebelgun-boats, and the boiler of the freight boat was pierced,and the wharf itself damaged, but the greater part ofthose in the water were saved. The Cumberland lost one hundred and seventeen outof three hundred on board. Buchanan, the Captain ofthe Merrimac, hailed Morris, the First Lieutenant of theCumberland, and temporarily in command, saying, Doyou surrender? No, Sir! shouted back Morris, whoseship was then sinking. The last gun was fired by actingMaster Randall, now in the navy, but retired. The shipheeled suddenly as she sank, and the ladders were eitherthrown down, or became almost perpendicular, so as torender it difficult to get on deck. The Chaplain wasdrowned, on this account. One of the gunners mates gotup safely, however, all the way from the magazine, andswam to the mizzen-top. The marine drummer boy waspushed and hoisted up by some of the men, holding fastto his drum, which he saved, and creating laughter, evenat that terrible moment, by the way in which he clungto it
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MERRIMAC AND MONITOR. 171 When the survivors of the Cumberland reache theshore they were enthusiastically received by the soldiers,and flasks of whisky, plugs of tobacco, and other soldiersand sailors luxuries, forced upon them. Captain Radford,of the Cumberland, now Admiral Radford, was at Hamp-ton Roads, sitting on a court-martial, when the Merrimacran out. He went on shore, got a horse, and rode madly,in hopes of reaching Newport News in time; but he onlygot there to see his pendant waving from the truck, andsweeping the water which had swallowed up so many ofhis fine crew. In ramming the Cumberland the Merrimac had twistedher prow or beak, but the leak it occasioned was notnoticed at once. She then turned down stream, to renewher attack upon the Congress. The latter ship had beenset on fire by the shell of the first broadside, and one ofthe seats of fire was aft, near the after magazine; this wasnever extinguished, and was the eventual cause of herdestruction. Seeing the fate of t

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