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Monitor. Certainly nothing occurred during the war that exercised such a vast influence upon its ultimate results. What the battle of Gettysburg was to the Army at a later day, the fight between the Monitor and the Merrimac was to the Navy; both were turning points in the Rebellion. Under the gallant worden the Monitor in 1862 fixed the boundaries of Rebellion by water at Hampton Roads; sixteen months later, the brave but now lamented meade, on the well-fought and bloody field of Gettysburg, with the chivalrous, often whipped but never-daunted Army of the Potomac, fixed its boundaries by land beyond Pennsylvania. Both battles said to Rebellion, Thus far shalt thou go, but no further; removing the theatre of its action back upon the territory that originated it, and in the end crushing it forever.
In my opinion the people of this country have never attached sufficient importance to the advent and services of the first Monitor, and the grand part she performed in the war, at an important crisis, when our very existence hung as it were upon a thread.
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