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The Battle of Hampton Roads was a significant event in both Naval and Civil War history that has been detailed in many books, televised Civil War documentaries, and in film, to include TNT's 1991 Ironclads.
Davis, William C. Duel between the first ironclads. Doubleday, 1975. Scharf, J. Thomas, History of the Confederate States Navy from its organization to the surrender of its last vessel; its stupendous struggle with the great Navy of the United States, the engagements fought in the rivers and harbors of the South and upon the high seas, blockade-running, first use of iron-clads and torpedoes ...
Catesby ap Roger Jones (April 15, 1821 – June 21, 1877) was an American naval officer who was a commander in the Confederate Navy during the American Civil War.He assumed command of CSS Virginia during the Battle of Hampton Roads and engaged USS Monitor in the historic first battle of the two ironclads.
USS Monitor was an ironclad warship built for the United States Navy during the American Civil War and completed in early 1862, the first such ship commissioned by the Navy. [a] Monitor played a central role in the Battle of Hampton Roads on 9 March under the command of Lieutenant John L. Worden, where she fought the casemate ironclad CSS Virginia (built on the hull of the scuttled steam ...
Before the Monitor had arrived at Hampton Roads, Marston had received positive orders from Secretary of the War Department Gideon Welles to order that vessel to proceed at once to the defense of Washington, D.C., but "fearing the destruction of his entire fleet of wooden vessels by the terrible Merrimac, he disregarded his orders and ordered ...
Pages in category "Battle of Hampton Roads" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
USS Merrimack, also improperly Merrimac, was a steam frigate, best known as the hull upon which the ironclad warship CSS Virginia was constructed during the American Civil War. The CSS Virginia then took part in the Battle of Hampton Roads (also known as "the Battle of the Monitor and the Merrimack") in the first engagement between ironclad ...
The Battle of Hampton Roads began on March 8, 1862, when Virginia engaged the blockading Union fleet. Despite an all-out effort to complete her, the new ironclad still had workmen on board when she sailed into Hampton Roads with her flotilla of five CSN support ships: Raleigh (serving as Virginia ' s tender) and Beaufort , Patrick Henry ...