| Show THE I1T011 Ml TEE MlfflAC = gninnol llownrtl llio Pilot of tho Monitor Dos crlboH tho Terrible Fi 1 ltt of tlio JronulnilH I 3 te loJftlfJ H < r Mertiiitie 11itn It Ilimmtd Iht CumktihnJllli nr tlllltnl on the ShnUar a > J II tt MMflt o > agt by the II of Iht flti X CanxmiJtii Miijr ff Hit rnf < iKminlrke ittnii in Itf JIM Ibuttllov Cuflaln llaiJtn Hat 1 IllinJtJ il Mtirw 1rlIo1W Ja trJ SaveJ He MntetotdHit Romantic Citetr Some Gtafkle Jit Ut ef One vi tte GreJttil rititi < I Our Illlbty < Vc CiltH for If fliit Time l < > Iht Mitt = = n TpotoJ u w Ct < tUr7bl wlr I I rank u CIIf1 I WASMIMIION July 19 V5 MONO the bills 1J which will be presented pre-sented to Con i II Kreti at the com J l InKseiiionvnl be J h 1 olla for Ilie In I f crcnc ol Ihe rank I I zV jl1 I of Lieut Kimucl t t < Howard Lieut I I I l7ward came within onetenth of one per cent of pasting Ilie technical examl nutlon Ri en by Ilie marlinels ol the Department of the Navy In 1870 and by them he was refuted n iccoml I elimination elimi-nation Committees 01 ConjreH have reported in favor of the bill and If pitted It will be only justice to one of I the bravest men the United Stale has everknonn Among the malt heroic acts ol the late civil war uai that of Ihli I Kin l toward w hen he volunteered tu acts act-s > the pilot of the Monitor In It terrible fljht Kith the Mminuc at Hampton KuaJi He carried the cnel throughout through-out that engagement and til ilory of that a ful fight It now here given for the firtt time to the public TUB riLOT OP Dili MON1TOK Hut lint let me tell > ou something tbout Lieut Howard He It an old minnow and hit > ear numberieenty fix Still Us eye li bright his olcp It Irm I and he U mentally al lound at he v > at vihen now more than a generation Igo lie took the Monitor Into action He It I at slralRlit at an arrow am hit bearing It I military Ho hat a broad forehead bright bluo Ces and a long blonde beard In which thera are many iray itranilt He hvet In a modest little house almost II under lt tho shadow ol j Hie national Capitol lIa I It the personification personi-fication modcstyand his talk about the engllemenl hh me last night IIP kept Inmsell In the background I Iiad to ask many questions before I cot Ihe slory ol his life Ills first voaie was taken at the age of sixteen ulieti lie salted Irom Dublin for Ihe Mediterranean Mediterra-nean 1 belle e he ran away from home to go to sea and he hid visited nearly every part ol the uoikl and hid coasted utianildown I the Atlantic shores of the nlltd Mate for many > eirs before the war began He had been several limes captain of a Mssel and as n ll ilurallied I American citizen I i lie put himself IU at the service ol Uncle Sam as soon nt the wir opened He wai appointed acting mat terofthebrli Amanda hue iluty It wat to coast up and down the eatlern shores of Ihe Atlantic and capture the 1 r hl r ka ships who tried I to tun our blockade and he led this ship to act at pilot for the Monitor Speaking of his modesty lie idtnlly thinks that ha did no more than any other nun would hue done under similar circumstances anil when I asked him whether he wat not afraid when ho was penned up In lhit little Iron box with tne shot and shell ruining down upon It lie replied 1 had no lime to think of being afraid It was 111 I could do tu keep tho boat moving according to the directions ol Captain Warden w hu stood In Ihe pilothouse pilot-house by my side now nmvAKti UAI ArroiNTKt > The main Icu of the engagement between be-tween Ihe Monitor and the Merrinuc are wtll known butthereare many detain which have ever been luin to Ihe I public It 1 Is tale to say that had It not I been for Samuel Howard there would hale been no action that day The Men rlmac would hive returned and the Mmnetol1 and millions ol dollars worth ol Uncle Sami properly would hate j been destroyed When the Monitor came into 1orticst Monroe the lound hertell unable to go into action lor the I want I ol luan pilot I bhr had been brought Irom Ilie north by a llallimore nun wnu sympathized with Ihe south and when loitrest Monroe was reached this man refund take the little Iron monster out against the Mcrrlmic The pilou on the boats at Hampton Koads were also southern mpatln rs and ellhcr Irom this or from cowardice they refused to act They said they knew nothing about Ihe watcr1 and Captain Wordcn wat in despair when he wnt called upon by Samuel I Howard and Ihe captain of Ins brig These twu had 1 brought l their ship from Wilmington to Pomci Monroe Mon-roe lor provision and seeing the Monitor Moni-tor they came to iiit her At they stepped upon the deck Capiln Worden greeted Hum anil told them Ins troubles ibou a 1101 1leul 1I0wad nl onca jllcred lo take the poiltlon lie said he knew something of the loAd and that he would gladly conduct It Into action He told Captain Worden that the pilott had been IIn I tu him about their Ignorance He inn They ate a set of rebel captain and they now the Ito ids belter than I do but ou cant I make 1 them act You had IUJ t Letter take me Tu nl this I Captain I Wor den Rladl aisentid l and Howar dual ushered Into the pilot home ot the Monitor Mon-itor and remained there almost Irom the time of lit anlvil Saturday mud the close of lit fight with the Mcrrlmc on thefollowing day TIIC llltADLl MRKKIMAC Ilefore I glte Lliut Howard itory ol Ihe battle properIctmesaysoinclhlni of Lieut the Howard etcnti II had of II the arrited day on ptccecdini hli brig In time lu sec the engagement between the Merrimac and our gunboats and the most ol my Information concerning that fight comet from him bitting In the rig gmgofhliship with hit glass he saw the queer Ironclad fail down the lu belli river and take Its way ucrots the channel to engage with our gunboats lyingalorgthecoiit between Newport fs 5 n News nnd Fortress Monroe and he wMitheil that terrible fight The Mcrrl mac I tu know wai a frigate ol 3500 font which hid been burned and sunk I during the I spring of I Wi at Norfolk I dUR I Ia A few months later It wat raited hy Ihe confederate and converted Into an Ironclad The ship wjs then cut down lu the old berth decks Her f uchinery I was led within her but the whole of the ship abate the water wat cotered with iron platet two incbc thick and eight I Inches wide sa riveted together that the vet had an armor ol Iron forvr inchet thick Ipun I lit prow they put n great I Iron ram which pruccted four I ef beyond be-yond the tcniel and whuli did terrible I damage tu one of Ihe northern gunboat before the Monitor arrived In Ihe side ot the vessel lucre were part holes and the ten great gun behind theie umlled forth hot and shell without ceasing while the wat in actit The ship wat commanded by some of the ablest olficers In the confederacy ood it had a crew ol joo picked men w 8 1 clumty seaicl It drew tweitv three I feet of water It could not travel morn Hun live inilet nn hour and It look from thill lo lolly minute to turn Still I whh the wooden ship ol iS6i it wat an allpowerful manner lit iron coat made I it practically impregnable und when It started un Its I hist xotage ol 1 destruction I Ihere was a pinic I olgl Ilia cabinet at Washington and Secretary Slinton pro illclcd that It would rultt our navy und thcithci members almotl felt that It wat already anchored In the 1otnmac with lu guns trained on the While Huuie The I ship wat built at Ihe Norfolk Nor-folk navy ard Its Iron platet hiving bfen rolled at the Tredegur iron foundry In Richmond When stjrlnl out some I of the oflicert thought that lit WRlllloI for 1 trill IIh but tf u It WAI the rnott tirribletiial I that an tesscl ever had I Till KAMMINU or TIIK LUtllllKLAKU Only a few miles from Norlollc Is Iait IIIII ro j f J rest Monroe with Hampton Koads lying helwecn About seven units above I unrest Monroe I at the mouth ol the 11 laniw river It Newport 1 Nen This line ol several miles constitute the northern put of the roaJs and e it tcred along It was a line at northern menalwar Ncitest I orlreis Monroe were the three frlgttis the M 1 I iw rtncc the Hoinoke und the Mmncsnta Jusl all Newport Newt were anchored twu moru rlgalc the Congress rm talnlni lilly Kims and tho Cuuiherlanil t I Ir hating Hurl These bods etldently did nut r pect an cngancinent Ihe I washing of the tailors wai haiiKinic on the rlggint and Ihere were few sl I ns ol action about the shlX until the NUrri mac ttit teen steaming low irJ ihein 1 he guns were lioneter < tnikl I put in order and u Ihti ipiecr IIIUIISIT of Iron mated up I the CimibcrlinJ open d with I her heavy nuns IIIH tiin Lonjici cimetoher niO the siuie IMICU t joined in but the balls lea I Irom the ironsides iron-sides of the Merrimac without tnv tratlng them and she still i line > Mn 1 did not lire until she v is within ciy range wnen she give it btoailtnlg at ilu Cuiigrcit Mie ihd not slop hc hut pointing htr 1 iron I prow at the Cumhtr 1 3 f 70 lamlshc put on lull I steam ami 1 m < < l > r It The ship nassltuck it right nvl and the hole nudo was > lare tint a horse and cart could hat been driven throtuh It without touching Its > > lde It was so skillfully I done Hut the fiilors on the Merrlm I ic afterward I said I tht they hardly felt the shock With this gieat hole in her side Iho Cumberland H fata was MI id and Ueutenint Howard saw her sink beneath the watts Her I men ho say kept up their Imiij uniu the bolt wait down TIIIl COMKKS4 III KNRII The Merrirnac after striking the Cum berland Hacked out and beg in u new b7 attack upon I Ihu Congrcsn I hu nun at l ° ortrei Monroe could see the ttnuke ol buthtistelsat 1 they rained shot and hel I upon one another I in thy ilic Congrot ran aground and her ulhi ers seeing that tliuy I cuuld donutiiliiK more i ran 111 the whne 111 In her urounleJ condition tin Mcrrimnc could not possibly pos-sibly take her and tiler taking oil a lew I pruotvri uiey shcllrl her willi hotshot hot-shot biiiw < s 0011 a muss ofthmet und slit was Mill burning wnen Hie Monitor Moni-tor nriltiil In the ineaiitimi the Uniied linn Inlies the KuatuKf the it I Law I rente iinil the Minimoti Iwl 1 sailed Iuna Iorn Ionroo to tin Cue Ih IlceIIY I II 1001 11101 UII bo I r t by vnit ullovstu The thip had I 00 oily ttarted < lI bclore they run agruuml and the Merilmic having finishiid up tliu Cuinberlauil and 1 Ihe Congress uut now rtady tu steam toward them It wtt however late Saturday nltcrlioon Tha I tide h id changed and Ilie ploti of the Merrimac said mat the inuit ilraw olf until mornlnic or she would < l alto be aground Tlieir advice < was taken and tho ship dr all to Ihe toutlicrn side I ol Hampton Rod near Sewallt Point its ulhrers lulenihng lu 101110 back and l destroy the Minnesota Ihe next day Tilt IIOXITCm ANKAHS I Whelllhe rI thcdty biokehouetcrlhere was a new figure on tho teell It lojktd says Mr Howard like a massive Iran I turtle with a gigantic black che se boron bor-on Its back anil It swam to and fro in Irontol the Minnesotannd between it and Ihe Merrimac As the day grew brighter through their glaitet the con federate ofhccr < could get a 1 better idea ot this new marine monster It wai ap parentlyariltpUted with Iroi wuha great round timer mini 11I11 center At the olhtert lookeil they siwlhls tower move slowly about and two mighty clctenInch guns were pointed III the direction of thi Merrimac They had read about this testel which was belncmade Ihey knew II wat I net g f r JIe lu IJI tons Monitor and they thought I n the stringtst looking vessel winch up to that lime had floated upon the sea It looked very small beside the might Merrlmar and its two cunt < ld nui ap 1 pear Invulnerable in comparison with their ten Its speed y llemtiunt Hunard nas not more than file knots an hour or utt about the SJIIK as the Merrimic but Its tmill size enibted lu niuva about more ijulikly and u wai more manageable m iverj way Itlud left New York twii days bclorr alld whin It was still twenty miles from Tort tens Monroe us olhccrs had heard the Ihiomme ol Ihu tun3 of the engagement of the Merrimac with the Cumberliml and Congress When I went on board of her Ihe Congress wat Mill liliim nnd Captain Worden had Just heard at the terrible destruction whltli the Merrl mac hul 1 aicumphshed that day He wis shown how the Merrlmac Iml draw oil and was told that It would surely lome back In tho morning lu destroy the Mlnnesuti the Uojuokc anil Ilia bt Liwrenct 1 and lie was anxion lo fu ct once tu their ie lello STIBKINO lit Till II1AISI1 COMH1S1 Well at toon as It wai decided that Iwattuactas I pilot I went down Into Ihe pilot House anil we at once gut nndir way Ihe pilot house wasa little nun box lint large enough lor lour menlo men-lo stand upright within it It wat situated situ-ated In the lure part of the tessel some distance in Iront of Ihu ritoltlug turrtl In whtcli Iheguns were placed It wai half ibove and hall below the Iron deck and U was in fact a square Iron box made of 1 iron l logt about nine Inches I kn viInch were bolted and dovetailed dove-tailed at Ihe corners I litre were little sills between die upicr tel of logt and the one helovt through which we could leepuut The sioermg wheel waste Mind lu one ol tue lo < i and I had a wire luiituclion with the engines which wire under the decksu lint by Ilie ringing ol belli I could gite the proper signals 1 lo the incineer Ihe tuirel bemud uisu revolved that the guns were etcry now iind thin pointed directly the pilot house ind during the action the olllcert hallo be tcry canful that they dul not hit the house It was Saturday Sat-urday night that we sailed past Fortress Monroe and came lu anihor in Irani of the Minnesoti A darker night dont I think eter came out of the lieivens I Von could almost feel It and It was oily by the ligla ol the burning Congress that Im I was able lu get my beatings Ill I j made a fair light dlll I steered by it Tna Minnesota was a fine vessel She wai u frigate bearing eightylour guns and she looked Cry grand In comparison with the little Monitor us tvc wiled by her We muted lo H short distance In troll ol her and then walled lor da Illl IHlll WITH THE MkKXIllV Tne tun ruse that morning on waters like a mdlpond It was a beautiful bun day and uu could sec for miles on eacn side of > oil As the day broke Ihe Wktuwnam Ihc Jamwtovvntvvoolthe conlcderste shlp came out and started lor the Minnesota We at unco got nndir way und svnt a shot at them Tbey I lelt At once They dulntwanttu hate anything lu do with thecheese box on a rail as they tailed it In the meantime Ihe Meirimac had 1 roused up and rime on toward the Minnesota The Monitor retted a little m front ol Ihr Minnesota mid waited for her Tha 1 ollkcn were In Ihe turret Captain U or den stood by my side and gate the orders I Tel I IrII first fireil at the Minnesota and then Capt Worden gate tne order lor the Monitor to go lor lIe Merrimac and tu tiegni firing The Merrimac 1 was n mile oil when tte II I ilarliJ for her I I he shots were at once concentrated on the twu Ironclads We turned this way and Hut tiling about cttry revtn miiiiitvs We epl muvmz about Iho Murlmac und celling In good shots at dinustetcrv lire Die useli weieoflni not more than thirty led apart and tha eniK ment was terrible Ihe turret of the MoiUor wai made ol heavy plates ol iron sn that us walls were about light Inches thick The hoti u tlia Merrimic pounded great dcnti In It but tney did not go tiirnugh Our guns tote the iron l m fio Mcrri mac and l hid we understood Its con ilrucllon we might hate sunk her We should have aimed lor her at the water hue Her Iron phtes did not extend muih below tins I hate always lluught that we did 1 send one shot Intulicr and I think we would hive I surel nuiik her had we continued to lire lu tins way IAIIAIN VVOKIHNa NARIOW LXIAIK Wnen wat Captain Worden wound edrII II watt omc hours alter the beginning begin-ning ol Ihe engagement 1 little alter noon repliedlleulenant 1 toward Hew He-w as standing nl my light and w as bending bend-ing utir and looking oJt ol the silt U c were Just going by the Merrimac and weie not inure than tin ards Irum her when a shell struck the log just below Ihe sight holrand then cxploued It broke this ilglitiuch lug ol iron in 10 It Ihrew one end ol it upward and the lo held Ihetc In the air Hy Iho dovetail with which It was laslencd lu Ihe bux Tha I splinters ol the shell Hew thruugli the shl With them came powder and flame Ihese got into Captain U ordcna eye and u Inded him I 1 hey t his face su that It w at cotered with Wood and hit clothes and mine wai covered with dust and powder Captain Worden exclaimed that he wat thol Ho could not tec but the light that came In made him Ihlnk that the pilot housej wtt ruined and he gate orders lu move oil Ha then itlt his way down through Ilia floor Into the lower part of hit vessel where his cabin wai and gave tin command ovir to Lieutenant Greene Tlut shot came near destroying the Pilut home 1 Had L we been a second ul lalir in turning Captain Warden and nisell would surely luve been killed As it was wn were smed only by Hut dote tailed los standing in the air Had it alien it would have trushed us both I lad the boat been lest slow In movm Ihe shot would hnvo struck the pilot house sipjare and we were so close that nothing I could 1 hate sated us As it was II hit the iron lags at an angle of seventy five degrees and only urjkc them Captain orden was a terrible sight as he mated oil down into his cabin Ihe blood was ruthln from every patt ol 1 hit face Hit I evclucio r closed and hit 1 tkln wai blackened with the powder Hit wounds however how-ever seemed to lino his lean thought He did nut faint and he kept his mind upon tha battle He gave over tho direction ol the e scl 1 tu Lieutenant Greene and we had lu report tu hint every few mmitei at to how the fight wai going on II01V MOttAKU AEI > Till MINNESOTA Did the ofhccrs of the Merrimac Inw 1 that they had shut Wordcn at this lime I asked I think not I replied Lieutenant Howard for they moved all shortly afterward My first orders Irom Lieutenant Lieut-enant Greene werr lu I move oil and make for 1ortress Monroe I did not know at this lime that he hid been made chief in command I thought this order 1 great mistake for 1 knew that If vo left the Merrimic would cOllie back ami destroy the Minnesota Instead In-stead ol obetini Iicutuiant Greene I went doitnlu see Captain Worden I Slid to himCiplaln Ihey want me to move oil tu Torneit Monroe If wa do this Ihe Merrimac will surely destroy the Minnesota I dont want tudiilt You must tec Lieutenant Greene replied Captain Warden He It now In command I 1 and jou must get your orders from him I then went to Lieutenant G ret no nnd begged him nut tu bl leave the I Minnesota Minne-sota 1 showed him the danger ol Ihe Miirimac coming back and alter a wlnlo persuaded him to allow me to lake Ihe Monitor to the Mmnoota This we did and anchored Ihere In the meantime mean-time Ihe Meirimac was slowly mating oil toward Norfolk and her share In the battle was ovei During the engagement engage-ment hir men I understand were unxiuut tu get close enough to us tu board us duping that they could del ttoy the machinery in Ihe turret with blidgcs I and wedges I Ihlnk such a thing would lave been Impottible Shortly alter Ilia Merrimac moved oil la I > > ked 1 Lieutenant Greene il hewounl not like tu take a shot at the Yorktown and the lamcstown the two confederate menofwar which were anchored oil Sewalls Point half a mile away He uu consented and we ttenred fur them We fired A ihot at cad ol them and II dipped their cables anti we did to they Icr MinneujUr I DId you 10 on the AkrdVe WI the reply We boirded 1 oshile I 1 inc 1 betide I it We it we were > i IonY were t risen f to tool no one on tt The ship bud ben deserted by all aVe the cOlllnllloneJ nlfrcntn ant a tow ethers A fuse hul been connected with In magazine and It was to unnic ed that It would hive been blown un l tad l there been any danger ol actua i capture by the Merrlmac It was used alter the war one lectultloe < hln and tatloned at New York I wn ordered to duty upon It and nctcd as one ol in lleutenanli lor more that n year 1 You did not remain upon the Mom tOIl No The Menlmic II not return Indlleh I the strip tint evening and went back to my brig the Amanda I was iltcrward lln command ol jn < ither mnnl nor on the lInll li pl Its name was the Meoiho nod Iteft I her at ths tirone of the war Alter the war woo over my nor Inert I ii vice was on the old Minnesota Captain WOld ell ai or lre < l to I nice the TeniscoU to Sin Francisco I and he asked the Navy Department lu make me one of In subordinate olhceri Tins I I was done In11 I remained with Mm two jean Captain orden ti now lining here In WiwhlnRlun lie 1 ii now Admiral Ad-miral Wordrn and It It strange that troth I he Indl I ahouldaurvlve tlial aturmy day and each live to be mule than threescore three-score and ten q I t with brats Jl fist tying I riio row atalU 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