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One was called a tin can on a shingle; the other, a half-submerged crocodile. Yet, on a March day in 1862 in Hampton Roads, Virginia, after a five-hour duel, the U.S.S. Monitor and the C.S.S. Virginia (formerly the U.S.S. Merrimack) were to change the course of not only the Civil War but also naval warfare forever. Using letters, diaries, and memoirs of men who lived through the epic battle of the Monitor and the Merrimack and of those who witnessed it from afar, William C. Davis documents and analyzes this famous confrontation of the first two modern warships. The result is a full-scale history that is as exciting as a novel. Besides a thorough discussion of the designs of each ship, Davis portrays come of the men involved in the building and operation of Americas first ironclads-John Ericsson, supreme egoist and engineering genius who designed the Monitor; John Brooke, designer of the Virginia; John Worden, the well-loved captain of the Monitor; Captain Franklin Buchanan of the Virginia; and a host of other men on both Union and Confederate sides whose contributions make this history as much a story of men as of ships and war. William C. Davis is the editor of Civil War Times Illustrated and the author of Breckinridge: Statesman, Soldier, Symbol ; The Battle of New Market; Battle at Bull Run; and The Orphan Brigade.

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Duel Between the First Ironclads
William C. Davis
Page iv Copyright 1975 by William C Davis New material copyright 1994 by - photo 2
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Copyright 1975 by William C. Davis
New material copyright 1994 by William C. Davis
Published by STACKPOLE BOOKS
5067 Ritter Road
Mechanicsburg, PA 17055
All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. All inquiries should be addressed to Stackpole Books, 5067 Ritter Road, Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania 17055.
Printed in the United States of America
Second hardcover edition
Originally published by Doubleday & Company, Inc., in 1975.
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Davis, William C., 1946
Duel between the first ironclads / William C. Davis.2nd
hardcover ed.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-8117-0536-6
1. Hampton Roads (Va.), Battle of, 1862. 2. Monitor (Ironclad)
E473.2.D36 1994
973.7'52dc20 93-26867
CIP
Page v
Contents
List of Illustrations
vii
Preface
ix
Acknowledgments
xiii
Chapter 1
"To Bury Us Forever"
1
Chapter 2
"Iron against Wood"
4
Chapter 3
"There's Something in It"
14
Chapter 4
"Prompt and Successful Action"
26
Chapter 5
"Ericsson's Folly"
42
Chapter 6
"I Lived Ten Good Years"
58
Chapter 7
"That Thing Is A-comin'"
76
Chapter 8
"We Vowed Vengeance on the Merrimac"
105
Chapter 9
"One of the Greatest Naval Engagements"
116
Chapter 10
"The Virginia No Longer Exists"
138
Chapter 11
"The Monitor Is No More"
156
Chapter 12
"Ram Fever"
165
Documentation by Chapter
171
A Note on Sources
187
Index
195

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List of Illustrations
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1. Confederate Secretary of the Navy Stephen R. Mallory.
2. Lieutenant John M. Brooke.
3. Union Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles.
4. John Ericsson, Monitor Designer.
5. Gosport Navy Yard Ruins.
6. USS Merrimack before the War.
7. Lieutenant Catesby ap R. Jones.
8. Captain French Forrest.
9. Inaccurate Early Sketch of the Virginia.
10. Fanciful Depiction of the Monitor's Launching.
11. Drawing of the Monitor.
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12. Captain Franklin Buchanan.
13. Lieutenant John Taylor Wood.
14. Sketch of the Virginia.
15. Lieutenant John L. Worden.
16. Chief Engineer Alban C. Stimers.
17. USS Congress and USS Cumberland.
18. Commodore Louis M. Goldsborough.
19. Major General John E. Wool.
20. Bird's-Eye View of Hampton Roads.
21. USS Cumberland.
22. USS Congress.
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108
23. Depiction of the Virginia Passing Craney Island.
24. The Virginia Ramming the Cumberland.
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