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Monitor versus the Merrimac...
Monitor versus the Merrimac...
Item # 705692
March 11, 1862
NEW-YORK TIMES, March 11, 1862
* Battle of Hampton Roads
* Monitor vs. Merrimack
* Historic Civil War naval battle
* Union and Confederate ironclads
Back page heads report the famous naval battle at Hampton Roads, Virginia, between the Monitor and Merrimac: "The Battle In Hampton Roads" "Interesting Details of the Two Days' Fighting" "How The Cumberland Was Sunk by the Merrimac" "The Congress Set on Fire and Blown Up" "Probably About a Hundred Lives Lost on the Cumberland" "The Terrific Engagement Between the Merrimac and the Monitor" "'The Battle Of The Giants'" "A Large Hole Stove in the side of the Merrimac" "Lieut. Worden Wounded". Content takes three columns.
The front page has three maps headed: "Commodore Dupont's Operations In Georgia And Florida."
Complete in 8 pages, very nice condition.
AI notes: The New York Times of March 11, 1862, carried prominent coverage of the dramatic naval engagement at Hampton Roads fought two days earlier, when the Union ironclad USS Monitor confronted the Confederate CSS Virginia (still widely called the Merrimac) in the first battle between ironclad warships. Reporting based on official dispatches and eyewitness accounts, the paper emphasized how the Monitor’s timely arrival prevented the Virginia from breaking the Union blockade and potentially threatening Northern coastal cities. The article described the unprecedented duel—turreted guns revolving under fire, iron armor deflecting shot, and hours of close-range combat that ended in a tactical draw but a strategic Union success. The Times highlighted the engagement’s global significance, noting that wooden navies had been rendered obsolete overnight and that naval warfare had entered a new era dominated by iron, steam, and heavy artillery.
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