The rebels made a beeline for the sloops USS Cumberland and USS Congress ... on its way to take out the CSS Virginia. When the Civil War started, the Confederate States of America had no navy ...
Hampton Roads was the first time in military history that two ironclad warships squared off. March 8-9, 2025, marked the ...
Women veterans from the Civil War, World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War are not exempt from Defense Department's ...
The Civil War ironclad USS Monitor’s revolving gun turret can typically be found submerged inside a 90,000-gallon tank at The Mariners’ Museum and Park in Newport News. But recently the tank ...
The turret of the USS Monitor is in the middle of preservation ... as 10 On Your Side got a special look inside the Civil War battleship. “The Monitor story really is a Hampton Roads story ...
The tank housing the historic USS Monitor's gun turret was drained ... spent nearly 140 years on the ocean floor after the Civil War ironclad warship sank during a storm off Cape Hatteras, North ...
while one of its anchors now rests in front of the American Civil War Museum in the state capital city of Richmond. USS Monitor outlived its Rebel opponent by a mere six months, as it was lost at ...