Like the CSS Merrimack, the USS Monitor was expected to sink, it was referred to as "Ericsson's Folly" (DesJardien 2). The only individual willing to take command of the ship was Lieutenant John Worden.
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The Battle of Hampton Roads , often referred to as the 'Battle of Monitor and Merrimack (or 'Merrimac ), was the most noted and arguably the most important naval battle of the American Civi...
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Union Navy Ship; USS Monitor ... In an attempt to reduce the North's great naval advantage, Confederate engineers converted a scuttled Union frigate, the U.S.S. Merrimack, into an iron-sided vessel rechristened the C.S.S. Virginia.
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On March 9, 1862 as the Merrimack arrived for day two of fighting, it found a Union ship called the Monitor waiting for it. The Confederate ironclad carried more guns than the Monitor, but it was slow, clumsy, and prone to engine trouble.
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The Monitor vs. the Merrimack was one of the most famous naval battles in the Civil War. ... One of perhaps the most remarkable events in naval warfare which exists in the annals of history is the encounter of the first two iron-clad ships, the Monitor and the Merrimack. WHEN the navy-yard at Norfolk was seized by...
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The Confederate ironclad carried more guns than the Union Monitor, but it was slow, clumsy, and prone to engine trouble. The Union prototype, as designed by John Ericsson, was the faster and more maneuverable ironclad, but it lacked the Rebel vessel's brutish size and power.
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This page features images of the battle between USS Monitor and CSS Virginia, on 9 March 1862. ... This page features images of the 9 March 1862 action between USS Monitor and CSS Virginia (formerly USS Merrimack and persistently mis-identified in accounts of this battle by that name or as "Merrimac").
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Selected reports of the battle between USS Monitor and CSS Virginia. ... This morning the Merrimack renewed the attack on the Minnesota, but she found, no doubt greatly to her surprise, a new opponent in the Monitor. ... The Merrimack, finding that she could make nothing of the Monitor, turned her attention once more to me.
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