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were therefore surprised to see her run off into shoal water, where our great draught would not permit us to follow.’
This second withdrawal was most probably coincident with the following fact, given by Lieutenant S. Dana Greene, the executive officer of the Monitor, page 725-727, ‘Battles and Leaders of the Civil War,’ volume I. Lieutenant Greene says:
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