As a continuing Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter to remind the gulag inmates how much they are no longer Americans.
For people who call themselves Americans, they for the most part are ungrateful fools in thinking all of this thing which was America just happened. None of it did, and it was not always America the all powerful.
In 1864, the mightiest ship in America was found in Mobile Bay. She guarded that life blood port to the Confederate States flanked by two towering forts at the entrance.
Her name was the Tennessee, the CS Tennessee. She was special as were all the Confederate main ships, as she was full armoured, had rifle guns and a ram on her bow which tore Union ships to shreds.
The Union found out early in the Merrimack what a ram could do as that iron clad ripped the old wooden warships to splinters, and the Tennessee was every bit the same dreadnaught.
It fell to the Union Flag Commander, Admiral David Farragut to take Mobile Bay from the Confederates to end the South's links with European allies, and Farragut steamed in one quiet morning with his fleet, lashed to each other, strafing and being strafed by the Confederate forts.
His fleet was steamers, and iron hulls, wooden vessels and four of the monitors, the gun turret iron clads which had driven in the Monitor, off the Merrimack in her attacks.
Mobile was lined with mines and the lead warship stopped in the narrows of the channel and refused to proceed, when Admiral Farragut stormed by her bow and uttered his famous line, "Damn the torpedoes, ahead full speed!!!!".
For God's only reason the mines did not blow up on the flagship of Farragut, but they did blow up the lead monitor, the Tecumseh.
She rolled over as if going to sleep and took most of her crew to an iron coffin in the waters of Mobile Bay.
As the Confederate ships were driven off by the gun boats lashed to the sides of the warships, one still remained and CSA Tennessee bore down on the Union fleet.
Farragut gave orders for the steamers to ram the Tennessee bow on bow, because in this was the reality the Merrimack taught the Union, there was no Union cannon which could penetrate the Confederate iron clads, but the Confederate warships with their rifle guns could blow holes in the Union vessels.
The warships rammed the Tennessee which was commanded by Captain Buchanan who had been on the Merrimack in the original battle and each in turn had their bows crumpled below and above water.
Against all odds the Union fought, and the monitors led now by the Chickasaw, the one fit monitor left, opened fire with great delight in her Captain Perkins.
The Chickasaw got under the stern of the Tennessee and there she hung, firing fifty two times in a barrage which had only one purpose, as the Union cannon could not penetrate the iron skin of the Tennessee, but if they knocked her enough, they could shake her timbers loose along with her workings.
The Chickasaw blew away the rudder chains and smokestack, and could not be steered. The hammering continued in an iron splinter was blown off the Tennessee and into the leg of her Captain Buchanan which broke his leg.
Going silent, the Tennessee with the warships bearing down to ram her again, she hoisted the white flag and surrendered.
I desire to remind Americans of that fight, in it was against all odds, but Farragut took them as he stated he would whip the enemy or whipped by the enemy, but he would not be scared to death.
The Union had nothing which could destroy the Tennessee, but took the fight to her, because that was all they could do. It was not armour piercing shells, great invention or atomic bombs, but what is was, was absolute battering of unbeatable foe, while it battered it's opponents, to finally be broken by the numerous hits of one small vessel.
That is what Americans used to do and be. Men and women who either lived or died, from Crockett to Jones from Custer to Patton. They did things, because they were hard and impossible and nothing was handed to them, and if they died, they died with honor for a nation they knew as the Republic, these United States of America.
nuff said
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