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Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
395 pages
Description
"No single sea battle has had more far-reaching consequences than the one fought in the harbor at Hampton Roads, Virginia, in March 1862. The Confederacy, with no fleet of its own, built an iron fort containing ten heavy guns on the hull of a captured Union frigate named the Merrimack. The North got word of the project when it was already well along, and, in desperation, commissioned an eccentric inventor named John Ericsson to build the Monitor,...
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (60 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The Union's USS Monitor was a decisive factor in the Civil War. Today it rests in the nation's first marine sanctuary. Join a team of Navy divers as they attempt to recover priceless artifacts; meet the ship designer who built the Monitor; see a realistic reenactment of the battle that changed the course of the Civil War; and discover a powerful military past as the secrets of the Monitor's service emerge from the deep.
Author
Publisher
Walker & Co
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
[36] p. : col. ill., map ; 29 cm.
Description
A description of the construction, battles, and historical impact of the Civil War battleships, the Monitor and the Virginia, known to Union forces as the Monitor and the Merrimack, which focuses on the Battle of Hampton Roads.
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