Word: merrimac
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Every U. S. schoolboy knows about the fight in Hampton Roads between the Monitor and the Merrimac, and about the naval battle in Mobile Bay, when Farragut said, "Damn the torpedoes! Jouett, full speed! Four bells, Captain Drayton!" But many a schoolboy's parents may have forgotten how one man played a principal role in both duels, was wounded in both. He was Franklin Buchanan, Admiral, Confederate States Navy...
...Yard. He resigned, later asked to have his resignation reconsidered; was told curtly that his name had been "stricken from the rolls of the Navy." Sailor Buchanan said good-bye to his family, went to Richmond, became captain in the Confederate Navy. In March, 1862, in the reconditioned, ironclad Merrimac (rechristened the Virginia) he sallied out against the Union fleet blockading Norfolk. As they went into action, Sailor Buchanan spoke to his men. Said he: "Those ships must be taken, and you shall not complain that I do not take you close enough. Go to your guns!" Down went...
Other possible origins of the quake are the Merrimac Valley, and the St. Lawrence Valley in Quebec. Professor Mather believes, however, that it is very unlikely that they were the cause of the tremor. Associated Press dispatches state that the strongest effects of the earthquake were felt in Nova Scotia, rather than in the vicinity of Boston...
...many years Canton remained comparatively undeveloped, its chief industries being cockfighting and politics. Shortly before the Civil War, Canton did become prominent as a coal port, and the Canton Iron Works was built. Here were cast the armor-plates for the ironclad Monitor, whose famed battle with the Merrimac marked the passing of the wooden warship. In the general industrial expansion of post-Civil War days, Canton grew into a great manufacturing and shipping centre...
...visited the Place of the Swift Waters, and particularly one portion of those waters known as the High Place for Fish. In the Indian language, Place of the Swift Waters was Merru-asquam-ack, and High Place for Fish was Namos-kee-et. The Whites translated the former into Merrimac and the latter into Amoskeag. So when, along in 1831, a big cotton mill was built in the High Place for Fish along the Place of the Swift Waters, the cotton mill was named Amoskeag Manufacturing Co., and was located on the Merrimac River. Famed among U. S. textile plants...