Excerpt from The Monitor and the Merrimac, From the Twelve Decisive Battles of the War
There was another office, too, besides the overthrow of its immediate enemies, which the Monitor performed for the Union. The 15-inch gun in the impregnable Monitor turret, mutters with its deep voice, hands off, to whatever transatlantic nation might before have meditated an interference in the American War. Before the rapidity of the achievement was comprehended, a squadron of monitors patrolled the Atlantic seaboard, capable of destroying any fleet that might challenge entrance to its harbors. The lesson was’ not lost upon foreign ministers, who inclined to think twice before encountering this new and terrible engine of defence.
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