. . . within the fortifications lately occupied by the rebels
filled with powder and bombs connected by wires with a telegraphic battery, by
which they were to be exploded after our troops had entered the fort. They could have caused immense destruction,
but there was nobody to touch them off at the right time. Maury fecit
and his torpedoes and other such monstrosities, have wasted lots of rebel
powder, and done nobody any harm. That
the advantage of science in war.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye,
Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, March 22, 1862, p. 3
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