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"Our Little Monitor" : The Greatest Invention of the Civil War
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. Althoug...
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Ashland :
The Kent State University Press,
2018.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Cover; Copyright; Contents; Tables and Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part One: The Monitor in History and Memory; Chapter 1: The Origins of the CSS Virginia; Chapter 2: ""The Navy Department Will Receive Offers . . .â#x80;#x9D;; Chapter 3: Building the Monitor; Chapter 4: The Battles of Hampton Roads; Chapter 5: ""The Pet of the People"": The Monitor in Popular Culture; Chapter 6: Aftermath of Battle; Chapter 7: ""The Monitor Is No Moreâ#x80;#x9D;; Chapter 8: Discovery and Recovery; Part Two: A Documentary Record of the USS Monitor.
- Chapter 9: The U.S. Gun Boat Currituck Escorts the Monitor to Hampton Roads, March 3â#x80;#x93;9, 1862Chapter 10: Firsthand Accounts of the Battle of Hampton Roads, March 8â#x80;#x93;10, 1862; Chapter 11: President Lincolnâ#x80;#x99;s Mailbag, March 10â#x80;#x93;17, 1862; Chapter 12: An Engineerâ#x80;#x99;s View from the Monitor, May 14â#x80;#x93;June 30, 1862; Chapter 13: Repairing the Monitor: News Reports from October and November 1862; Chapter 14: Two Surgeons Observe the Monitorâ#x80;#x99;s Final Moments: December 30, 1862, to January 11, 1863; Appendix: Specifications of the Merrimack and Virginia Before and After Conversion; Notes.