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The Battle of Hampton Roads, also referred to as the Battle of the Monitor and Merrimack (rebuilt and renamed as the CSS Virginia) or the Battle of Ironclads, was a naval battle during the American Civil War . The battle was fought over two days, March 8 and 9, 1862, in Hampton Roads, a roadstead in Virginia where the Elizabeth and Nansemond ...
Ironclads. (film) Ironclads is a 1991 made-for-television movie produced by Ted Turner 's TNT company about the events behind the creation of CSS Virginia from the remains of USS Merrimack and the battle between Virginia and USS Monitor in the Battle of Hampton Roads, March 8, 1862 – March 9, 1862. Noel Taylor received an Emmy Award ...
Davis, William C. Duel between the first ironclads. Doubleday, 1975. Scharf, J. Thomas, History of the Confederate States Navy from its organization to the surrender of its last vessel; its stupendous struggle with the great Navy of the United States, the engagements fought in the rivers and harbors of the South and upon the high seas, blockade-running, first use of iron-clads and torpedoes ...
The Battle of Gettysburg: Charles Giblyn Thomas H. Ince: Drama, War. Battle of Gettysburg: 1913 United States The Battle of Shiloh: Joseph W. Smiley: Drama, War. Battle of Shiloh: 1913 United States The Seed of the Fathers: Stanner E.V. Taylor: Drama, War. 1914 United States The Littlest Rebel: Edgar Lewis: Drama, War. Based on the play The ...
The Conference took place on the River Queen, near Union-controlled Fort Monroe in Hampton, Virginia. The Hampton Roads Conference was a peace conference held between the United States and representatives of the unrecognized breakaway Confederate States on February 3, 1865, aboard the steamboat River Queen in Hampton Roads, Virginia, to discuss ...
During the American Civil War (1861-1865), the famous Battle of Hampton Roads between the first American ironclad warships, the USS Monitor and the CSS Virginia (ex- USS Merrimack) took place off Sewell's Point, on March 8–9, 1862. That battle was inconclusive, but later in 1862, Union forces took control of Hampton Roads, Norfolk, and the ...
Battle of Hampton Roads. Battle of Mobile Bay. Other work. College president and businessman. Franklin Buchanan (September 17, 1800 – May 11, 1874) was an officer in the United States Navy who became the only full admiral in the Confederate Navy during the American Civil War. He also commanded the ironclad CSS Virginia .
Sewell's Point. / 36.9548696°N 76.3268873°W / 36.9548696; -76.3268873. Sewells Point is a peninsula of land in the independent city of Norfolk, Virginia in the United States, located at the mouth of the salt-water port of Hampton Roads. Sewells Point is bordered by water on three sides, with Willoughby Bay to the north, Hampton Roads ...