Heralds of the morning, the meaning of the social and political problems of to-day and the significance of the great phenomena in nature .. (1899)
Tait, Asa Oscar. [from old catalog] · Oakland, Cal., San Francisco [etc.] Pacific press publishing company · leaf 233
her ten guns on the Monitor at short range for all of that six-hours contest, and to the best of her ability; still the Monitorsarmor was also uninjured. The Monitor fired one of her two guns about every sevenor eight minutes, thus showing that it took nearly a quarterof an hour to load each gun… … One of the big cannon being transported on a specially-constructed car, made of the best boilersteel, and requiring 32 wheels to support it. Merrimac became so disheartened with their inability to breakthrough the armor of the Monitor, that they ceased firing,saying as they did so, We can do her…
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