Notre marine en temps de guerre (1861-1898) . s ne sait pas si elle serait asuccess. Après une autre semaine, le navire s'est comme faire Sandy Hook par ses propres moyens. Cameorders alors dépêchez-vous à son Sud, et le Jeudi, Mars6e, comme cela a été dit, elle a commencé sur son jour périlleux-Ney. Le moniteur a été sous le commandement du lieuten ant-John Worden, qui avait fait quelques workat Pensacola plus tôt dans la guerre, et avait été im-prisoned à Montgomery (Alabama), à cause de cela. Il a été très malade lorsqu'il s'est porté volontaire et a été selectedto le moniteur de commande. Le lieutenant S. DanaGreene s'est porté volontaire pour aller avec lui en tant que directeur

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Our navy in time of war (1861-1898) . s not known whether she would be asuccess. After another week the vessel went as faras Sandy Hook under her own steam. Then cameorders to hurry her South, and on Thursday, March6th, as has been told, she started on her perilous jour-ney. The Monitor was under command of Lieuten-ant John Worden, who had done some notable workat Pensacola earlier in the war, and had been im-prisoned at Montgomery, Ala., because of it. Hewas really sick when he volunteered and was selectedto command the Monitor. Lieutenant S. DanaGreene volunteered to go with him as executiveofficer. Assistant-Engineer Isaac Newton w^as at thehead of the four engineers, and Chief-Engineer A. C.Stimers was sent along to watch the machinery and tomake a report about it. The crew consisted of fifty-eight men. THE FAMOUS MONITOR. 13 Meanwhile the Southern men at Norfolk were hur-rying up the Merrimac. When she started out from^Norfolk on the morning of March 8, 1862, the work-men were still busy on her, and some of them were. put ashore after the vessel had got in motion. She wasunder the command of Captain Franklin Buchanan, formerly of the United States navy, and a very braveman. She had a green crew on her, and had never 14 OUR NAVY IN TIME OF WAR. stGaincd a mile after being fixed over, and few ofthe officers had ever met one another. She could goonly about four knots an hour, and when she starteddown the river from Norfolk to Hampton Roads onthat Saturday morning to destroy the Northern fleet, there was very little fear on those ships that anythingserious Avould happen. At anchor in Hampton Roadsnear each other and off Newport News Avere the frig-ate Congress, which carried fifty guns, and the sloopof war Cumberland, carrying twenty-four guns, which the Pawnee had saved from the Norfolk NavyYard nearly a year before. Farther down Ham})tonRoads, toward Fort Monroe on the Chesapeake Bay, were the old frigate St. Lawrence and the two mod-ern steam frigates, Roanoke and M

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