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Battle of the Ironclads
Language: en
Pages: 64
Authors: Alden R. Carter
Categories: Hampton Roads (Va.), Battle of, 1862
Type: BOOK - Published: 1993 - Publisher: Franklin Watts

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Examines the construction, battles, and technological and historical impact of the Civil War battleships, the Monitor and the Merrimac.
Dignity of Duty
Language: en
Pages: 356
Authors: Erasmus Corwin Gilbreath
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-06-19 - Publisher: Pritzker Military Museum and Library

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Published 117 years after his death, the journals of the American soldier Erasmus Corwin Gilbreath provide a compelling vantage point by which to view contempor
Reign of Iron
Language: en
Pages: 400
Authors: James L. Nelson
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-10-13 - Publisher: Zondervan

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At the outbreak of the Civil War, North and South quickly saw the need to develop the latest technology in naval warfare, the ironclad ship. After a year-long s
Duel Between the First Ironclads
Language: en
Pages: 300
Authors: William C. Davis
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-05-09 - Publisher: Doubleday

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One was called "a tin can on a shingle"; the other, "a half-submerged crocodile." Yet, on a March day in 1862 in Hampton Roads, Virginia, after a five-hour duel
The Battle of the Ironclads
Language: en
Pages: 134
Authors: John V. Quarstein
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999 - Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

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Battle of the Ironclads brings to life the dramatic events which occurred in Hampton Roads on March 8 and 9, 1862. This first battle between armored vessels, of