BALTIMORE, March 12. – The Old Point boat has arrived. We learn through Lieut. Hayward that a copy
of the Norfolk Day Book has reached Old Point.
It contains a highly colored account of the Merrimac fight and pays a
great compliment to the bravery of the crew of the Cumberland. It admits that some of the shot from the vessel
entered the Merrimac. One shell killed
seventeen men in the Merrimac and wounded Capt. Buchanan who subsequently died.
The Monitor is admitted to be formidable but says she appeared
like a black, Yankee cheese on a raft.
The Merrimac on Sunday was under command of Capt.
Johns. The account is mainly confined to
Saturday’s fight. Some slight repairs
are necessary to the Merrimac. The
reason why the Merrimac did not first attack the Congress was because Capt.
Buchanan had a brother on board as paymaster.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye,
Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, March 15, 1862, p. 3
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