Transcribed from Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, Volume I, edited by Robert Underwood Johnson and Clarence Clough Buel, New York, 1887, pp. 716-718.

THE PLAN AND CONSTRUCTION OF THE "MERRIMAC."
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BY JOHN L. PORTER, NAVAL CONSTRUCTOR, CONFEDERATE STATES.

 

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