U.S.S. Monitor and C.S.S. Virginia in action off Newport News, March 9, 1862, artist's impression, zoomable image

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U.S.S. Monitor and C.S.S. Virginia in action off Newport News, March 9, 1862, artist's impression, zoomable image

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Don Sailer, Dickinson College

Scan date

06/20/2011

Notes

Sized, cropped, and adjusted for use here by John Osborne, Dickinson College, March 8, 2012.

Depicted ContentCivil War at Sea

Depicted ContentIn Hampton Roads, the Virginia and the Monitor pound each other in the first ever battle between ironclads

Image type

engraving

Courtesy of

Archives and Special Collections, Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA

Original caption

The Erickson battery "Monitor" driving off the "Merrimac"

Source citation

Harpers Weekly Magazine, March 22, 1862, p. 184-185.

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