"Our little monitor" : the greatest invention of the Civil War /

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"On March 9, 1862, the USS Monitor and CSS Virginia met in the Battle of Hampton Roads the first time ironclad vessels would engage each other in combat. For four hours the two ships pummeled one another as thousands of Union and Confederate soldiers and civilians watched from the shorelines. A...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Holloway, Anna Gibson (Autor), White, Jonathan W., 1979- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Kent, Ohio : The Kent State University Press, [2018]
Colección:Civil War in the North.
Temas:
Monitor (Ironclad)
Virginia (Ironclad)
1861-1865
Hampton Roads, Battle of, Va., 1862.
Bataille de Hampton Roads, Virg., 1862.
Military operations, Naval
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Naval operations.
États-Unis > Histoire > 1861-1865 (Guerre de Sécession) > Opérations navales.
United States
Virginia
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part 1. The Monitor in History and Memory.
  • The Origins of the CSS Virginia
  • "The Navy Department Will Receive Offers . . ."
  • Building the Monitor
  • The Battles of Hampton Roads
  • "The Pet of the People" : The Monitor in Popular Culture
  • Aftermath of Battle
  • "The Monitor Is No More"
  • Discovery and Recovery
  • Part 2. A Documentary Record of the USS Monitor.
  • The U.S. Gun Boat Currituck Escorts the Monitor to Hampton Roads, March 3-9, 1862
  • Firsthand Accounts of the Battle of Hampton Roads, March 8- 10, 1862
  • President Lincoln's Mailbag, March 10-17, 1862
  • An Engineer's View from the Monitor, May 14-June 30, 1862
  • Repairing the Monitor: News Reports from October and November 1862
  • Two Surgeons Observe the Monitor's Final Moments: December 30, 1862, to January 11, 1863
  • Appendix. Specifications of the Merrimack and Virginia Before and After Conversion.

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