and the work continued at night whenever had devoted to almost all branches of naval engineer- moce of its practical application, tending to hasten the ing, and for which he had received such inadequate practicable. Each establishment was furnished with appreciation, his mind at once grasped the… … rable naval conflict between the Monitor and Merrimac at Hampton Roads, in the spring of board fitted the place for which it was intended, and 1862, which affords the subject of one of our illustra- this novel craft, with battery and steam machinery tions. We have not yet seen the end of the…
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