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"On March 9, 1862, the USS Monitor and CSS Virginia met in the Battle of Hampton Roads the first time ironclad vessels would engage each other in combat. For four hours the two ships pummeled one another as thousands of Union and Confederate soldiers and civilians watched from the shorelines. Although the battle ended in a draw, this engagement would change the nature of naval warfare by informing both vessel design and battle tactics. The wooden walls of navies around the world suddenly appeared far more vulnerable, and many political and military leaders initiated or accelerated their own ironclad-building programs. Americans did not initially have much faith in the Monitor. Few believed that this strange little vessel could hold her own against the formidable Confederate ironclad Virginia, which had been built on the bones of the scuttled USS Merrimack in Portsmouth, Virginia. The Virginia, seemingly relentless and unstoppable, had ravaged the U.S. Navy in Hampton Roads on March 8, just before the Monitor arrived. Yet the following day, the cheesebox on a raft proved her Union mettle, becoming a national hero in her own right. For the remainder of the Civil War the Union Navy us

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Author

Holloway, Anna Gibson, author; White, Jonathan W., 1979- author

Publisher

Kent, Ohio: The Kent State University Press

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9781606353141

Category

history

Subjects

History, Humanities

Rating

4.9 / 5 (19 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14