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Saturday, January 1, 2011

The Battle of the U.S.S. Monitor and the C.S.S. Merrimac

The U.S.S. Monitor, the first ironclad to battle another ironclad.
The C.S.S. Merrimac (or Merrimack, also known as the Virginia) which fought the Monitor.

The map of the Battle at Hampton Roads (the Monitor and the Merrimac).

Famous painting by Kurz and Allison, entitled Battle Between the Monitor and Merrimack.







The above five images show the battle between the U.S.S. Monitor and the C.S.S. Merrimac which took place on March 9, 1862.




The previous three photographs show crew members on board the Monitor.

The Virginia was exploded by the Confederates to keep it from falling into Union hands.

The Monitor sinks in a storm off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina on December 31, 1862.

This is an underwater photo of the wreck of the Monitor.




2 comments:

  1. Very nice and informative information Little Buddy. Here is a picture of another Civil War Navy vessel, the USS Ossage. your great-great-great grandfather, Alphonse Gauthier was a deck hand on this ship. This ship was involved in the very famous "Red River Campaign" in which the Northern Navy sailed into LA. to steal cotton from the South so that the South could not sell the cotton for money to fund the war chest! Grandfather Alphonse was famous, or at least in our family, as the deck hand that dispatched the Confederate General thus ending the seige upon the Northern Navy who were "stuck", so to speak, in the Red River.

    I'll have to ask Nana how to attach a picture a little later this morning !!

    See ya little buddy, love Papa.

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  2. By the way, the Osage also was an iron clad war ship.

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