lineahead

Updated: May 5, 2025

Nor was this the worst; for the Tecumseh's mistake had thrown the other monitors out of their proper lineahead, athwart the wooden ships, which began to slow and swing about in some confusion. The Confederates redoubled their fire. Ahead lay the fatal torpedoes. For a moment Farragut could not decide whether to risk an advance at all costs or to turn back beaten.

William Charles Henry Wood - Captains of the Civil War; a chronicle of the blue and the gray