Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 573
he Cumberland, she beganan attack on the Congress, which soon met with a simi-lar fate. But all this was nothing to what was yet to come.The next morning was hazy, and a mist pervaded thelength of the bay. But gradually it cleared and theMerrimac made her way up from Norfolk Harbor(where she had… … SUNNY CORNER. BY HUGO GRAF, AGE 15. (CASH PRIZE.) alongside of the Minnesota, stood the strangest-lookingcraft ever seen. Its long iron deck was all that was tobe seen above water, and on top of that was a round,revolving turret, carrying two eleven-inch guns. Itseemed, as indeed the Confederate…
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