Clash of the ironclads.(1862 Battle of Monitor and Merrimack)Dusek, Karen H
March 9, 1862: It was the second year of the American Civil War, and the confederacy had acquired a frigate by the name of the U.S.S. Merrimack. They altered the ship, heavily armoring it and adding significantly more firepower, turning it into a formidable ironclad ship, the C.S.S....
March 8-9, 1862 Hampton Roads / Battle of the IroncladsRef:Pea Ridge: Civil War Campaign in the West Ref:Confederate Ironclad vs Union Ironclad: Hampton Roads 1862 Hampton Roads - The War in the EastOriginal Work by Joe Ryan March 91862 -- The"Monitor" and the "Merrimac"In an attempt ...
the Union troops moved out on February 12 but were delayed by a Confederate cavalry screen led byColonel Nathan Bedford Forrest. As Grant marched overland, Foote shifted his four ironclads and three "timberclads" to Cumberland
the next day, Foote's gunboats advanced with the ironclads in the lead. Opening fire, they exchanged shots with the Confederates for around seventy-five minutes. In the fighting, only USSEssexsuffered meaningful damage when a shot hit its boiler as the low trajectory of the Confederate fire ...
The Laird Rams: Britain's ironclads built for the Confederacy, 1862–1923 has now returned almost, but not exactly, to his starting point: not to Amsterdam but to the Admiralty of the Maze (i.e. the Maas, in modern spelling) at R... HJ Fuller - 《Mariners Mirror》 被引量: 0发表:...
摘要: Ironclads in action : a sketch of naval warfare from 1855 to 1895 ; with some account of the development of the battleship in England by H.W. Wilson ; with an introduction by A.T. Mahan Sampson Low, Marston, 1896 2nd ed v. 1 v. 2...
The Battle of Champion Hill was the decisive land engagement of the Vicksburg Campaign. The May 16, 1863, fighting took place just 20 miles east of the river city, where the advance of Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's Federal army attacked Gen. John C. Pemberton's hastily gathered ConfederatesAlph...
The one engagement was a rather heated duel between 3 of the gunboats and the Redan Fort on the Tennessee shore. Foote ordered the Benton lashed between 2 of the ironclads, a precaution in case one of the boats became disabled so it would not float downstream into Confederate hands. The ...
Two Union gunboats, including USS Monticello, dueled with Confederate batteries on Sewell's Point in an attempt to enforce the blockade of Hampton Roads. The two sides did each other little harm. Result(s): Inconclusive Location: Norfolk City ...