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[James River, Virginia Deck and turret of U.S.S. Monitor]

[James River, Virginia Deck and turret of U.S.S. Monitor]

James River, Virginia Deck and turret of U.S.S. Monitor

James River, Virginia Deck and turret of U.S.S. Monitor

James River, Virginia Deck and turret of U.S.S. Monitor seen from the bow (i.e. stern)

James River, Virginia Deck and turret of U.S.S. Monitor seen from the bow (i.e. stern)

[James River, Virginia Deck and turret of U.S.S. Monitor seen from the bow (i.e. stern)]

[James River, Virginia Deck and turret of U.S.S. Monitor seen from the bow (i.e. stern)]

[James River, Virginia Deck and turret of U.S.S. Monitor seen from the bow (i.e. stern)]

[James River, Virginia Deck and turret of U.S.S. Monitor]

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Photo shows the light damage caused to the turret of the ironclad USS Monitor during her fight with the Confederate ironclad CSS Virginia, March 9, 1862 at the Battle of Hampton Roads-the first battle of two ironclad warships. Launched in January 1862, the Monitor was lost at sea in December that same year. Photograph relates to the Federal Navy, and seaborne expeditions against the Atlantic Coast of the Confederacy -- the Federal Navy, 1861-1865.

In the early years of the war many civilian ships were confiscated for military use, while both sides built new ships. The most popular ships were tinclads—mobile, small ships that actually contained no tin. These ships were former merchant ships, generally about 150 feet in length, with about two to six feet of draft, and about 200 tons. Shipbuilders would remove the deck and add an armored pilothouse as well as sheets of iron around the forward part of the casemate and the engines. Most of the tinclads had six guns: two or three twelve-pounder or twenty-four-pounder howitzers on each broadside, with two heavier guns, often thirty-two-pounder smoothbores or thirty-pounder rifles, in the bow. These ships proved faster than ironclads and, with such a shallow draft, worked well on the tributaries of the Mississippi.

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01/01/1862
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Gibson, James F., b. 1828, photographer
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Steamships of The Civil War Time

During Civil War, both Union and Confederates relied on steamboats to move troops and supplies - steamboats made the war possible.
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history civil war naval operations government vessels union virginia james river glass negatives stereographs river deck turret ironclad american history american civil war 1862 ships united states navy united states ships stereoscopic views 19th century confederate states of america uss monitor us navy navy us navy ships armored vessels ship naval ship library of congress