Posted on 01/13/2024 5:14:29 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson
WASHINGTON, Tuesday, Jan. 12.
GEN. HANCOCK AFTER RECRUITS FOR HIS CORPS.
Gen. HANCOCK, by many thought to be the best soldier in the Army of the Potomac, went North tonight upon an errand that the country will rejoice to hear of, to arrange in the several States wherein his corps was recruited, measures to increase its numbers by new enlistments to fifty thousand, the whole destined for special service. Gen. BURNSIDE has authority to do the same.
The House Naval Committee met to-day, to arrange for a full investigation into the affairs of the Construction and Engineering Bureaus of the Navy Department. ISHERWOOD's theories in regard to engines will be roughly handled.
The plans of the four monster casemated war-ships under advisement in the Construction Bureau have been changed; they will each be enlarged to 7,000 tons, As first designed they were too small to carry that armament and machinery. The weight of the engine and boilers alone will be two thousand tons. The change of plan will delay the work on all.
The total cost of the monitors built and being built, will be $22,150,000. The Tecumseh, built by SECOR, at Jersey City, and the Canonicus, at Boston, by LORING will be in commission by the 1st of February. Nine other monitors of the Tecumseh class, now under construction, will speedily follow each other into service after that date, These are intended for river and harbor defence, and to break up blockades. The Dictator and Puritan are intended for the sea, They will have the power to drive them seventeen miles an hour. The Tecumseh class will run twelve miles the hour. Twenty other monitors -- light draft -- are building at a cost each, complete, of $465,000, all designed for inside work -- river and harbor defence.
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