The Monitor and the Merrimac - Both sides of the story

Project Gutenberg's The Monitor and the Merrimac, by J. L. Worden et al. This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: The Monitor and the Merrimac Both sides of the story Author: J. L. Worden et al. Release Date: February 15, 2008 [EBook #24612] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE MONITOR AND THE MERRIMAC *** Produced by Graeme Mackreth and The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries) THE "MONITOR" THE "MERRIMAC" THE ENCOUNTER AT SHORT RANGE, MARCH 9, 1862. THE MONITOR AND THE MERRIMAC BOTH SIDES OF THE STORY TOLD BY LIEUT. J.L. WORDEN, U.S.N. LIEUT. GREENE, U.S.N. OF THE MONITOR AND H. ASHTON RAMSAY, C.S.N. CHIEF ENGINEER OF THE MERRIMAC ILLUSTRATED HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS NEW YORK AND LONDON MCMXII COPYRIGHT, 1912, BY HARPER & BROTHERS PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA PUBLISHED MARCH, 1912 CONTENTS Introduction I. The Monitor and the Merrimac Told by Lieutenant Worden and Lieutenant S.D. Greene of the Monitor II. The Merrimac and the Monitor Told by H. Ashton Ramsay, Major C.S.A., Chief Engineer of the Merrimac III.