The Battle of Hampton Roads : : New Perspectives on the USS Monitor and the CSS Virginia / / ed. by Tim Mulligan, Harold Holzer.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
• MitwirkendeR: Davis, William C.,; Fuller, Howard J.,; Gutierrez, Joseph,; Hightower, John,; Holzer, Harold,; Johnston, Jeff,; Mindell, David,; Quarstein, John V.,; Symonds, Craig L.,; Tyson, Mabry,
• HerausgeberIn: Holzer, Harold,; Mulligan, Tim,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2022]; ©2006
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.) :; 16 Illustrations, black and white

On March 8 and 9, 1862, a sea battle off the Virginia coast changed naval warfare forever. It began when the Confederate States Navy’s CSS Virginia led a task force to break the Union blockade of Hampton Roads. The Virginia sank the USS Cumberland and forced the frigate Congress to surrender. Damage...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• PREFACE
• INTRODUCTION
• 1. The Battle of Hampton Roads
• 2. Building the Ironclads
• 3. Iron Horse, Iron Coffin: Life Aboard the USS Monitor
• 4. Sink Before Surrender: The Story of the CSS Virginia
• 5. Believe Only Half of What You Read about the Battle of Hampton Roads
• 6. Victory without Glory? The Battle of Hampton Roads in Art
• 7. "This Country Now Occupies the Vantage Ground": Union Monitors vs. the British Navy
• 8. Who Won the Battle of Hampton Roads? A Historians' Debate
• 9. Discovery and Recovery- The Modern History of the USS Monitor: A Personal Memoir
• PORTFOLIO: Highlights from the Monitor Center Collection
• AFTERWORD: About The Mariners' Museum: The Collections
• NOTES
• CONTRIBUTORS
• INDEX