Excerpt from The Story of the Confederate States Ship Virginia (Once Merrimac): Her Victory Over
AN article in the Army and Navy Journal, June 13th, entitled The Monitor and the Merrimac, is one of the very choicest specimens yet produced of the Northern mode of manufacturing history. A grand victory is claimed for the Monitor, whereas a more palpable, undeniable defeat shall never have been recorded in naval history. The proofs are being prepared by those who were actors in the drama, who will produce facts and figures, chapter and verse, bearings and distances. In the meantime here is a brief statement (written hastily and from memory), by a Confederate soldier, who, from a safe position saw the fight. It is intended only as a light four-pounder rocket; several 200 pound chilled bolts, conical, will follow. We must now settle all disputed questions and reach the facts, for it is time that the great fight should pass into history.
It remains to be seen whether it would not have been wiser in the Federals to have remained content, with our tacit acquiescence (to our shame be it said), in their brazen claim, as at first slowly and insidiously set up, to a drawn battle.
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