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The Battle of Hampton Roads: The Monitor Meets The Merrimack (CSS Virginia)
Civil War Daily Gazette ^
| March 9, 2012
| Eric
Posted on 03/09/2012 8:36:56 AM PST by Upstate NY Guy
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It happened 150 years ago today.
To: Upstate NY Guy
My favorite of all naval battles, since I was a kid.
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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.
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posted on
03/09/2012 8:44:16 AM PST
by
C19fan
To: Upstate NY Guy
McClellans Richmond Campaign delayed Yeah, it really took a Confederate superweapon to delay McClellan.
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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: Haiku Guy
My favorite of all naval battles, since I was a kid. Dittos. It sure changed naval warfare forever.
Here is another great Civil War website that really gets into the "historical significance of the first battle between ironclad naval vessels".
The Battle of Hampton Roads: Then & Now
To: C19fan
There is going to be a Monitor-Merrimac weekend at the Mariners Museum in Newport News. Cool. Wish I could make it.
To: KarlInOhio
To: KarlInOhio
To: C19fan
That’s a great museum, Pretty unknown , but very interesting.
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posted on
03/09/2012 9:08:30 AM PST
by
Venturer
To: Upstate NY Guy
Why do yankees insist on calling it the Merrimac?
It was the battle between USS Monitor ans CSS Virginia.
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posted on
03/09/2012 9:16:18 AM PST
by
BuffaloJack
(Defeat Obama. End Obama's War On Freedom.)
To: BuffaloJack
They probably should have called it the Merrimac too. When the Royal Navy captured a ship, the practice was usually to retain the French, Spanish or Dutch name, to spite the enemy.
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posted on
03/09/2012 9:29:01 AM PST
by
Parmenio
To: Upstate NY Guy
Amazing technology from 150 years ago! Pre internet, pre electric light, pre powered flight.
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posted on
03/09/2012 9:48:37 AM PST
by
6SJ7
(Meh.)
To: BuffaloJack
They do not want to admit that they lost it.
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posted on
03/09/2012 10:00:14 AM PST
by
Ratman83
To: BuffaloJack
Hey, come on. I added CSS Virginia to the title.
To: BuffaloJack
I don’t know, Jack. Maybe it has to do with all the newspapers of the day reporting it that way?
I recall correcting my 5th grade teacher on this in class. He was a good teacher, and took it well. Pennsylvania, BTW.
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posted on
03/09/2012 10:13:18 AM PST
by
Tallguy
(It's all 'Fun and Games' until somebody loses an eye!)
To: Haiku Guy
The thing that always facinated me was the fact that the USS Monitor happened to arrive the day AFTER the CSS Virginia attacked the Union blockade line. I often wonder if the duel between the two ironclads might have turned out the same if she had arrived the day before and prevented the sinking of the Union frigate? IOW's would the skipper of the Virginia have handled his vessel any differently had they not been "flush with victory" from the previous day's engagement?
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posted on
03/09/2012 10:16:47 AM PST
by
Tallguy
(It's all 'Fun and Games' until somebody loses an eye!)
To: KarlInOhio
I will be honest in stating that my family history and sympathy lies with the Confederacy. However, with that said, McClellan was abolutely incompetent. He was the General Weasly Clark of the Civil War.
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posted on
03/09/2012 10:23:29 AM PST
by
ohioman
To: Haiku Guy
I see our Creators hand in this. The Monitor showed up just in the nick of time to save the Union. The creators hand was also deeply envolved in our Revolution. I can only pray that our Creator will reachout to guide us now.
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posted on
03/09/2012 10:33:27 AM PST
by
fella
("As it was before Noah, so shall it be again.")
To: ohioman
Neah.
McClellan just had the wrong job.
It today’s terms, he should have been in charge of training and doctrine. Grant fought a heck of a war with the army that McClellan built.
But McClellan just wasn’t capable of fighting such a war, with ANY army...
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posted on
03/09/2012 10:37:05 AM PST
by
Little Ray
(FOR the best Conservative in the Primary; AGAINST Obama in the General.)
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; McClellans 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.
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posted on
03/09/2012 10:54:42 AM PST
by
fso301
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