Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 455
hips, and put an enormous shot into the Min-nesota, tearing four rooms into one, and set-ting the ship on fire. The fire was quicklyextinguished, and the Minnesota replied with abroadside that would have blown out of waterany wooden ship in the world; but the Merrimacwas unharmed. It seemed like… … ON BOARD THE MERRIMAC—A SHOT AT THE TIN CAN ON A SHINGLE. the balls striking incessantly on the outside. Themen became grimy with powder, shut up in sosmall a space, and got very nervous from theexcitement; but they kept at their work. It wasdifficult to aim. White marks had been madeon the deck to…
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