More Batteries

NEW YORK, April 24. – Messrs. Rowland & Co., at Continental Iron Works, at Green Point, have already laid the keels for three more marine batteries, similar in construction to the Monitor, though much larger. In a very few days not less than 1200 hands will be employed in the construction of these batteries. Each Battery will be furnished with two turrets, each to have guns of the heaviest caliber. They will be of much greater power than the Monitor and calculated for ocean service.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, April 26, 1862, p. 3