From the August 5, 2021, Chicago Tribune.
These two things were of significant importance to the Civil War Navis.
** 1864:
Admiral David Farragut is said to have given his famous order, "Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead!" as he led the Union fleet against Confederate forces in Alabama's Mobile Bay.
Of course, I have been writing about two other naval officers who were at this battle: Charles V. Gridley and J.R.M. Mullany, although neither would have heard the admiral's utterance as they were at the end of the line on the USS Oneida.
** 2002:
The coral-encrusted gun turret of the Civil War ironclad USS Monitor was raised form the floor of the Atlantic Ocean off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.
--Old B-Runner
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