“David goes out to meet Goliath and every man who can walk to the beach sits down there, spectators of
the first ironclad battle of the world…”
Congress, Cumberland, and Minnesota under attack
Captain John Worden, USN
“Soon, after noon, a shell from the enemy’s gun, the muzzle not ten yards distant, struck the forward side of the pilot’s house directly in the sight hole or slit and exploded, cracking the second iron log and partly lifting the top, leaving an opening.”