The Confederate States Ram Merrimac or Virginia: The History of Her Plan and Construction, and Her Engagements with the United States Fleet, March 8 and 9, 1862

by Virginius Newton

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Richmond, VA: Hermitage Press, 1907. Second separate edition, reprinted from the Southern Historical Society Papers, Vol. XX, and first published separately in 1892. 12mo. 34 pp. Illustrated from an old wood engraving. The author served as a midshipman aboard the Beaufort during the battle. Inscribed at the head of the title page by the author to William Glover Stanard, editor of the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, and with the author's

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