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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;midas1, post: 1183945, member: 21309&quot;]President Lincoln was desperate to find a way to sink the Confederate armored ship &quot;Merrimack&quot; commodore Vanderbilt outfitted one of his ships then loaned it to the Union Army</p><p>but it was never used against the Merrimack.&nbsp; Congress passed a bill that allowed the Army to&nbsp; take possession of the ship in return the Commodore was given a gold medal</p><p>from the country. I wonder where that medal is today?&nbsp; As the war progressed the commodore sold many ships to the Army, unfortunately many of them weren&#039;t sea worthy.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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