[BuffaloJack]

Holy moly! I didn’t realize that they mounted 10 or 11 inch guns on it. It makes more sense now why CSS Atlanta surrender after 5 well placed hits by USS Weehawken.
My great great uncle who was captured was a corporal in the CS Marine Corp and sat out the rest of the war in the federal prison at Elmira, NY.

[tanknetter]

Holy moly! I didn’t realize that they mounted 10 or 11 inch guns on it. It makes more sense now why CSS Atlanta surrender after 5 well placed hits by USS Weehawken.

During the battle with CSS Virginia, Monitor was using reduced charges due to that bad Dahlgren explosion years before. Had she been using full charges, she would have eaten the Virginia alive.