Chapter XVI: The Battle of the “monitor” and the “merrimac” 274

I. A PRELUDE TO THE PENINSULAR CAMPAIGN OF APRIL TO JUNE, 1862

By _James Kendall Hosmer, LL.D._ Author of “The Appeal to
Arms” and “The Outcome of the Civil War.”

II. THE STORY TOLD BY CAPTAIN WORDEN AND LIEUTENANT GREENE OF
THE “MONITOR” 279

By _Lucius E. Chittenden_. Author of “Recollections of
Lincoln.”