NEW-YORK TIMES,  March 10, 1862

• Battle of Hampton Roads, Virginia
• Battle of the Monitor and Merrimack (CSS Virginia)
• American Civil War ironclads

Front page heads beginning at the top of the first column describe the events of the most famous naval engagement of the Civil War, the battle of the Monitor vs. Merrimac.
They include: "Highly Important News" "Desperate Naval Engagement in Hampton Roads" "Attack Upon our Blockading Vessels by the Rebel Steamers Merrimac, Jamestown and Yorktown" "The Frigate Cumberland Run Into by the Merrimac and Sunk" 'Part of Her Crew Reported to be Drowned" "Surrender Of The Frigate Congress" "Engagement of the Rebel Steamers with the Newport's New Batteries" "The Minnesota and Other Vessels Aground" "Cessation Of Firing At Night" "Opportune Arrival of the Iron-Clad Ericsson Battery Monitor" "A Five Hours' Engagement Between Her and the Merrimac" "The Rebel Vessel Forced to Haul Off" "The Monitor Uninjured" & in the third column reports about the engagement between the two famous iron-clads: "Later And Better News" "A Five Hours' Engagement Between the Ericsson Battery and the three Rebel Steamers" "The Rebel Vessels Driven Off --The Merrimac in a Sinking Condition", plus: "The Vessels Engaged", which provides a detailed description of "The Ericsson Battery Monitor" & "The Merrimac" as well as several of the other vessels involved in the overall engagement at Hampton Roads, Virginia.
Also has a 10 by 9 inch map: "The Line Of The Potomac From Harper's Ferry To The Chetank Point".
The back page has a 5 3/4 by 4 1/2 inch map headed: "Norfolk And Is Neighborhood" showing: "The Locality of the Great Maritime Action in Hampton Roads & the Railroad Connections of Norfolk with Richmond and Petersburgh."
Eight pages, never bound nor trimmed, damp stain to an upper corner, some very minor foxing, nice condition.

Background: The March 1862 Battle of Hampton Roads holds unprecedented historical rarity and importance as the world's very first engagement between ironclad warships, a four-hour duel between the Union's revolutionary USS Monitor and the Confederacy's CSS Virginia that ended in a tactical draw but permanently changed naval warfare. Prior to this duel, the Virginia demonstrated the terrifying invulnerability of armored plating on March 8 by effortlessly sinking and destroying two heavy wooden warships. However, when the Monitor arrived with its low-profile hull and ground-breaking revolving steam turret, the two iron monsters spent hours pounding each other at point-blank range to zero effect, as cannonballs bounced off their iron armor. Beyond preserving the vital Union blockade, the exceptional rarity of this technological clash made centuries of traditional wooden navies instantly obsolete overnight, forcing worldwide powers like Britain and France to immediately abandon wooden shipbuilding in favor of armored, turreted steamships.