St. Tammany farmer., 1901-07-20
The AMERICAN NAVY
= History Of Its Victories to Be
Published Very Soon.
one LAY Yankee Ingenuity Re~o.
onased Naval Warfare-Mo-
nenfous Results of the
Duel In Hampton Road.
Especial Washington 1a,+a,. ,

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i evening recently a veteran naval
omcer quoted Admiral Jouett as
aaSing said: "All of the navies of
ureat Britain, France, Spain, Russia,
~ 1act OF every nation on earth, were
1rsen from the seas in one day by
1ankee ingenuity and fighting. All
p them, every battleship, man-of-war
sno cruiser, iell into helplessness in
one day, and the Yankee nation ruled
the seas
The veteran then explained that he
e1erred to the battles of March and
y 1862, when the ironclad Merrimac
and the turreted Monitor fought at
hampton Roads, Va, and he added:
but Tor the fact that the Yankee ma
ZION was then divided into two hos
Tue camps we could have swept the
nigh seas and defied the world. When
the Merrimac hammered and rammed
Ine pest men-Of-war in the American
navy the officers of foreign navies who
Witnessed the feat agreed in saying:
we have not real warship in our
navles. The wooden ship is no longer
. warship.''
These remarks have been verified in
every respect. The British navy,
which had cost hundreds of millions
OF dollars, was as effectually de-
Stroyed on that fateful Sth of March
rs when the noble old Cumberland was
sunk to her topsail yards by the Mer-
rimac's ram. The 9th of March but
emphasized the value and Importance
OF iron-plated vessels, and illustrated
two great principles in the construc-
ton of warships which must last for
all time, the DETECTING and turreted
armors. The Monitor reached Hamp-
ton Roads on the night of the sth, and
the next day she and the Merrimac
pounded each other, at few yards
distance, with the heaviest guns then
known, from eight a. m. until one p.
M, when they retired from the con-
fict, neither materially damaged, and
each claiming TO have gotten a lit
tie the best of it. Either of these
vessels, with sufficient ammunition,
could have destroyed the English,
French and Spanish fleets combined
history, that of Trafalgar.
Another weapon developed by the
war and destined to play a wonderful
part in future naval conflicts was the
torpedo. The confederates by the use
Of this terrible weapon destroyed
more than 50 United States men-of-
war. Although in its infancy, the de-
structiveness of the torpedo was as
apred, and its application almost in
finite. It's improvements have about
kept pace with those of guns and
ships, neither of which would likely
be understood or even recognized by
IN ante-bellum officer.
When the war with Spain was de-
clared, Admiral Jouett, quoted above,
said to the writer: eve will have no
trouble with the Spanish navy. Give
me the monitor Puritan and 1 will
20 out to meet any fleet that Spain
can send over here. They could not
see me and locate me with their range
finders until they were within two or
three miles of me. I could see them
seven miles OF, and, with my big guns
down close to the waters edge, I
could sink them before they realized
that the most powerful fighting ma
chine on any water was doing the
deadly work. The old veteran of the
civil war also said: George Dewey
has fleet which can take care of the
business which he has in hand, it he