CIVIL WAR Engraving, Print~ Naval Conflict In Hampton Roads - Monitor & Merrimac

Description

Antique Civil War Engraving
Naval Conflict In Hampton Roads
Action Between The Monitor & Merrimac
From Original Painting by
Alonzo Chappel
in Possession of
Publisher Johnson, Fry, & Co.
New York
1865
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Battle of the Monitor and Merrimack, also called Battle of Hampton Roads, (March 9, 1862), in the American Civil War, naval engagement at Hampton Roads, Virginia, a harbour at the mouth of the James River, notable as history’s first duel between ironclad warships and the beginning of a new era of naval warfare.
The Northern-built Merrimack, a conventional steam frigate, had been salvaged by the Confederates from the Norfolk navy yard and rechristened the Virginia. With her upper hull cut away and armoured with iron, this 263-foot (80.2-metre) masterpiece of improvisation resembled, according to one contemporary source, “a floating barn roof.” Commanded by Commodore Franklin Buchanan and supported by several other Confederate vessels, the Virginia virtually decimated a Union fleet of wooden warships off Newport News, Virginia, on March 8, destroying the sloop Cumberland and the 50-gun frigate Congress while the frigate Minnesota ran aground.
Size:11" x 8.25"
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