Show WHERE THE MONITOR FOUGHT republican down near norfolk in the very same water where the monitor and the merrimac fought their historic battle the armored ships of the united states are me making king peaceful display of their powers on the bosom of the bar bay where chere the minnesota went down under the destructive shots of the confederate ram the battleships of a reunited nation are rising and falling in all peace upon the pulsing hilt it is a spectacle that rather impresses one merrimac days were great days in norfolk all saturday the people wore hurrying out of the city to ocean view where they could see the tho dark body of the ram perfectly I 1 impervious to the firing of the big wooden battleships of the union where they could see their abenger avenger destroying the craft of the people they regarded as their enemy on sunday they went out again but meantime a new story had been told the yankees were jubilant over iho tho promised arrival of a gunboat they called the monitor and norfolk prayed for a meeting of the two in one of the stories of the war that battle la Is described by a woman who could not go with the others and watch its pro gress gross mhd sat in a attic in tn the old town and through an oriel window listened to the firing of cannon which told of the struggle she knew the tour four shots which constituted the broadi side of the merrimac and ehe she learned in an instant the ominous boom of that single gun of the monitor and she noted when the four shots wore were reduced to three and knew that one of the Merrl macs aels guns gung was silenced then aho she watched in tears and impassioned prayers while the merri macs broadside was reduced a gun at itt a a time until it was silenced utter ly and she knew the cause of the south had been lost thlu Is a better day the woman who watched with her ears while the historic battle went forward should still be living how grander a scone scene she will be looking upon in hampton roads today than could have been purchased by the victory of the merrimac surely the god of battles was in that sabbath struggle surely a power greater than any known to man must have ruled and overruled the machinations of the american republic it is the pleasure plea ure of the entire nation to know of the exposition at yorktown and to recall side by side no northern and southern the incidents of that war which waged about the old field of yorktown no triumph or rebel arms could have brought to aou southern t hern men and women the r splendor of that state in which they live today and no defeat of the union could have been followed by the glory of that united country has flourished so mightily through more than forty years of peace |