Experience showed that they could stand up to the opposing Union vessels only under very special circumstances; when those conditions were not met, they were overwhelmed.

All together, she burned 65 Union vessels of various types, most of them merchant ships.

Perhaps if we had not-" "This is a Union vessel!

More than that, it is a Union vessel under my command, and I will tolerate no incompetence from its crew.

To those on board the Union vessel the convulsion came more like a collision with another ship.

The Confederates wasted little time putting the captured Union vessels to use.

Union vessel with a conventional ironclad hull.

The Union vessels then silenced the Grant's Pass guns.

They retreated to the safety of a nearby Confederate battery at Columbus, where the Union vessels could not follow.

Union vessels, including Whitehead, again fought Albemarle on 5 May 1864.