Unlike anything that ever floated : the Monitor and Virginia and the Battle of Hampton Roads, March 8-9, 1862 /

Unlike anything that ever floated : the Monitor and Virginia and the Battle of Hampton Roads, March 8-9, 1862 /

The battle between the USS Monitor and the CSS Virginia (ex USS Merrimack) erupted in Hampton Roads, Virginia, Sunday, March 9, 1862. The day before, the Confederate ironclad ram had destroyed the wooden frigates USS Cumberland and USS Congress. This first engagement between ironclad steam warships...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hughes, Dwight Sturtevant (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: El Dorado Hills, California : Savas Beatie, [2021]
Series:Emerging Civil War series.
Subjects:
Monitor (Ironclad)
Virginia (Ironclad)
Hampton Roads, Battle of, Va., 1862.
Virginia > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Naval operations.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Naval operations.

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