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Title

The Battle of Hampton Roads : new perspectives on the USS Monitor and CSS Virginia / edited by Harold Holzer and Tim Mulligan.

Publication

New York : Fordham University Press, 2006.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Holzer, Harold.
• Mulligan, Tim, 1938-
• Mariners' Museum (Newport News, Va.)

Description

xviii, 222 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map; 24 cm

Summary

"On March 8 and 9, 1862, a sea battle of the Virginia coast changed naval warfare forever. It began when the CSS Virginia of the Confederate States Navy led a task force to break the Union blockade of Hampton Roads. The Virginia sank the USS Cumberland and forced the frigate USS Congress to surrender. Damaged by shore batteries, Virginia retreated, returning the next day to find her way blocked by the newly arrived USS Monitor. The clash of ironclads was underway." "This book takes a new look at that historic battle. The original essays, written by leading naval and Civil War scholars, explore every aspect of the battle - from the building of the warships and life aboard these "iron coffins" to tactics, strategy, and the debates about who really won the battle of Hampton Roads." "Copublished with The Mariners' Museum, this guide to the military, political, technological, and cultural dimensions of this historic battle also features a portfolio of classic lithographs, drawings, and paintings interpreting the battle, including for the first time an array of pictures of the exhumed Monitor relics."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

• Monitor (Ironclad)
• Hampton Roads, Battle of, Va., 1862
• Virginia > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Naval operations
• United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Naval operations
• Virginia (Ironclad)

Note

• "A special publication of the Mariners' Museum, Newport News, Virginia."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-209) and index.

Contents

1. The battle of Hampton Roads / William C. Davis -- 2. Building the ironclads / Craig L. Symonds -- 3. Iron horse, iron coffin : life aboard the USS Monitor / David Mindell -- 4. Sink before surrender : the story of the CSS Virginia / John V. Quarstein -- 5. Believe only half of what you read about the battle of Hampton Roads / Mabry Tyson -- 6. Victory without glory? : the battle of Hampton Roads in art / Harold Holzer -- 7. "This country now occupies the vantage ground" : Union monitors vs. the British navy / Howard J. Fuller -- 8. Who won the battle of Hampton Roads? : a historians' debate / John V. Quarstein and Joseph Gutierrez -- 9. Discovery and recovery - the modern history of the USS Monitor : a personal memoir / Jeff Johnston -- Portfolio : highlights from the Monitor Center collection -- Afterword : about the Mariner's Museum : the collections.

ISBN

• 0823224805 (hardcover)
• 0823224813 (pbk.)

LCCN

• 2005018155
• 9780823224807

OCLC

• OCM60824146
• SCSB-5235083

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries