Norwich bulletin., 1918-03-08
SAW MERRfMAc. MONITOR
 BATTLE AT hiAMPToN ROADS.
  Calvin Hurrows of Poquenaee Witness- ed Famous Encounter 5s Years Ago.

Calvin Burrows of Poquonnoe Bridge, who is now "A, had the rare experience 56 years ago tomorrow,
 March 9th, 1862. of witnessing the Famed combat between the Mefrimac and the Monitor in Hampton Roads. MT. Burrows is just as ardent a patriot today as he was back in Civil war times, and being anxious to do ! his bit for Uncle Sam, is bt1sied aB a watchman at the Groten Iron works, where ships are being turned out for 1 the government His choice would be
 to command a coast patrol boat, since he was for years engaged in the eeast : ing trade and in menhaden fishing, so IS thoroughly acquainted with the northern Atlantic coast.
 | He and his wife occupy a cosy home at Poquonnoc Bridge, not far Ffrom that of their only surviving chfHa, Att torney ". B. Burrows.
 Although born in the town of Groton, f Calvin Burrows was in Wisconsin at the outbreak of the war, and when
 Lincoln sent out country wide call for volunteers MT. Burrows enlisted in the Fourth Wisconsin battery under Captain c, B. Easteriy. Their first
 service was at Fortress Monroe. The Fourth Wisconsin was doing garrison
 duty at the fortress and while the world famous battle between the iron clad engine of war on the confederate side and the insignificant looking Mon- itoF Of the north was taking place Mf Burrows with the rest of his comrades was watching with greatest interest When the Merrimac wrought SC much damage to the ships of the fed eral fleet-the Congress and the Cum
 berland-Private Burrows was dele. gated as one of the gun squad to mar the famous gun then known among the soldiers as the union gun. Int gun, which was a 12-inch rife -cut, haG
 been set on the beach, and from thi. position the men first saw the Monitor
 at the break of day, March 9th
 Mir. Burrows in speaking of his ex perieI1ces while fighting for the unioi
 told of the joy oecasioned in Fortress
 Monroe by the sight of the queer lock
 ing Monitor. The soldiers had livet
 in state of apprehension since tn terrorizing Of the nearby waters b, the ship MerTifnac. It then appeare, to all as if the Aei rimac's destruction of the fleet. the passing of Fortres
 Monroe and the bornbardment of Ney
 York was only matter of time.
 But the appearance of the Monito under Lieut.. John l.. Worden drov uoupE away. MT BUTTONS state
 that the Monitor had laid all nigh
 under the lee of a federal vesse
 When the Merrimac bore down on tn federal battleship in the morning, wit ] the evident intention of adding an other trophy to her list, the littl 2 Monitor appeared from under the ster lof the federal craft and immediatel engaged the confident Merrimac. , Then ensued the famous cor1tsa I The battle finally terminated in tn withdrawal of the Merrimac frer : Hampton Roads, and in fact froI ! active warfare.
 :. It is said that the final shot of tn 2 battle the one which ended the blood z z shed and destruction, was fired frol 2 the Monitor from such position ths 2 the shell whistled throug ha perthei ' of the Merrimac and exploded withi :. the armored portion, killing many an 7 running the machinery