Our telegraph dispatches give an account of a severe engagement between the rebel Iron steamer Merrimac and the Ericsson iron clad steamer Monitor. The former draws 23 feet of water. The Monitor carries only two 11-inch columbiads. Her sailors and gunners were picked [well] and it seems succeeded in driving off the Merrimac. Mr. Ericsson was on board the Monitor when she left New York, and was very desirous of testing her invulnerability. The test has proved her fitness to cope with anything the rebels can command.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Tuesday Morning, March 11, 1862, p. 1
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