It happened 150 years ago today.
To: Upstate NY Guy
My favorite of all naval battles, since I was a kid.
2 posted on
03/09/2012 8:42:14 AM PST by
Haiku Guy
("The problem with Internet Quotes is that you never know if they are real" -- Abraham Lincoln)
To: Upstate NY Guy
There is going to be a Monitor-Merrimac weekend at the Mariners Museum in Newport News.
3 posted on
03/09/2012 8:44:16 AM PST by
C19fan
To: Upstate NY Guy
McClellan’s Richmond Campaign delayed Yeah, it really took a Confederate superweapon to delay McClellan.
4 posted on
03/09/2012 8:46:10 AM PST by
KarlInOhio
(You only have three billion heartbeats in a lifetime.How many does the government claim as its own?)
To: Upstate NY Guy
Why do yankees insist on calling it the Merrimac?
It was the battle between USS Monitor ans CSS Virginia.
10 posted on
03/09/2012 9:16:18 AM PST by
BuffaloJack
(Defeat Obama. End Obama's War On Freedom.)
To: Upstate NY Guy
Amazing technology from 150 years ago! Pre internet, pre electric light, pre powered flight.
12 posted on
03/09/2012 9:48:37 AM PST by
6SJ7
(Meh.)
To: Upstate NY Guy
During the meetings, Stanton paced the floor “like a caged lion,” and made brash, yet somehow believable, predictions of the terror to come. The fleet would be destroyed; Fortress Monroe laid under siege; McClellan’s Richmond Campaign delayed; the supply vessels traveling the Atlantic sunk; Washington and even New York bombarded sending the government officials running. And that likely would have happened had the C.S.S. Virginia's captain loaded solid shot.
20 posted on
03/09/2012 10:54:42 AM PST by
fso301
To: Upstate NY Guy
After a short exchange, the Virginia should have ignored the little pest and gone about her business of wrecking the Northern Aggressors.
25 posted on
03/09/2012 11:16:49 AM PST by
FreeAtlanta
(Liberty and Justice for ALL)
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