Excerpt from The Monitor and the Merrimac: Both Sides of the Story
But the main result was reached. The Union fleet was saved. The career of the Merrimac was checked. N 0 Union vessel was destroyed after the Monitor appeared. It seems prop er to note these facts here, in view of the fact that Mr. Ramsay’s fresh and striking story of the M errimac, which is presented for the first time, enters upon the details of the battle more fully than the narrative of Lieutenant Worden and Lieutenant Greene. Fortunately the discussion has become academic in the half-cen.
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