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MINUTES OF PEOCEEDINGS OF 
APPENDIX C. 
'Extract from, Admiral Eahlgren 9 s Report,dated 28 th Jan. 1864, to the Secretary 
U.S. Navy, on the Services of the iron clads before Charleston . 
<C I shall now briefly comment on the various qualities of the monitors. 
(1) Capacity for resistance. 
(2) Power of ordnance. 
(3) Draught of water. 
(4) Speed. 
(5) Number of crew. 
“ (1) Endurance .—During the operations against Morris island the nine iron-clads 
fired eight thousand projectiles, and received eight hundred and eighty-two (882) 
hits. Including the service at Sumter in April and the Ogechee, the total number 
was eleven hundred and ninety-four (1194) distributed as follows :— 
SERVICE OF IRON-CLADS. SOUTH ATLANTIC BLOCKADING SQUADRON. SHOTS FIEE3) AND 
HITS BECEIVED BY THEM DURING OPERATIONS AGAINST MORRIS ISLAND. 
Vessels. 
No. of shots fired. 
Hits. 
Hits 
April 7, 
1863. 
Hits at 
Ogechee. 
Total 
hits. 
15-in. 
11-in. 
Catskill. 
138 
425 
86 
20 
106 
Montauk . 
301 
478 
154 
14 
46 
214 
Lehigh . 
41 
28 
36 
36 
Passaic . 
119 
107 
90 
35 
”9 
134 
Nahant. 
170 
276 
69 
36 
... 
105 
Patapsco . 
178 
230 
96 
47 
1 
144 
Weehawken ... 
264 
633 
134 
53 
187 
Nantucket ... 
1 44 
155 
53 
51 
104 
Ironsides . 
1 
4439 
164 
... 
164 
Total. 
1255 
6771 
| 882 
256 
66 
1194 
By Ironsides . 
11-in., by monitors 
15-in., by monitors 
Total 
No. of shots fired 
.4439 
.2332 
1255 
8026 
Weight of projectiles 
fired, in tons. 
288* 
161* 
213* 
653* 
“ The consequences of the protracted firing and hard usage to which the monitors 
were exposed during these two months of incessant service, were unavoidably 
very considerable in the aggregate; and the greater, also, that all repair which 
could possibly be dispensed with was postponed to the conclusion. It was 
therefore necessarily extensive when entered upon. The battering received was 
without precedent. The e Montauk 3 had been struck two hundred and fourteen 
(214) times; the ‘ Weehawken 3 one hundred and eighty-seven (187) times, and 
almost entirely by 10-inch shot. What vessels have ever been subjected to 
such a test ? 
“ It is not surprising that they should need considerable repair after sustaining 
such severe pounding for so long a time, but only that they could be restored at 
all to a serviceable condition. The force of the 10-inch shot must be experienced 
to be appreciated. Any one in contact with the part of the turret struck falls 
senseless, and I have been nearly shaken off my feet in the pilot-house when 
engaging Moultrie. 
