Milsurp After Hours

If you noticed the funeral the other day ...about a 150 years late..... of some of the remains of two crewmen who were drowned when the Civil War ironclad Monitor was lost in a storm, this story may be of interest.


I noticed this story in a New York newspaper of a hundred years ago. Seems one survivor was still around 51 years after the battle with the Merrimac.


http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/ ... d-1/seq-4/

What most people don't know is that after the 3 hour battle between the Monitor and the Merrimack,
which was actually the CSS Virginia rebuilt from the burned and sunken hulk of the USS Merrimack.
That neither ship ever fought again, the Virginia was sunk by her own crew to avoid capture and the
Monitor was sunk in storm, as the privious post says.
However, those 3 hours changed naval history.

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