JANUARY 13TH, 1862: Lieutenant Worden ordered to command the USS Monitor.
Three days later Worden wrote Secretary of Navy Welles from New York: "...I have this day reported for duty for the command of the U.S. Steamer building by Captain Ericsson."
Within two months, the Monitor, Worden and Ericsson were to have their names written indelibly in the annals of naval warfare.
--Old B-Runer
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