More On the CSS Albemarle

APRIL 21ST, 1864: Lt.Cmdr. William T. Truxton of the USS Tacony wrote Davenport: "The ironclad, from all accounts, is very much like the first Merrimack (CSS Virginia), with a very long and very sharp submerged prow....

The loss of so good a vessel as the Southfield and so valiant a life as that of the brave Flusser should show the impossibility of contending successfully with a heavy and powerful ironclad with nothing but one or two very vulnerable wooden vessels."

 In other words, definitely contradicting Lee in the previous post.

--Old B-Runner