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| Monitor and Merrimack (detail) |
Battle of USS Monitor and CSS Virginia
| The Confederate gunboat Virginia was unstoppable. In a single day’s action, the captured, refitted and renamed U. S. ship Merrimack had sunk or disabled three Union warships with little damage to herself. On March 9, as the Southern ironclad returned to finish off a ship aground, she was confronted by the Union’s own ironclad Monitor. For four and a half hours, the ironclads dueled in a slow, lumbering ballet, bouncing iron shot off each other’s iron plate. The Virginia finally withdrew, leaving the Monitor and her blockading fleet to hold Hampton Roads. It was the dawning of a new age in maritime warfare. Neither craft would survive the war, their contribution to the future limited to that one day. |
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