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The original "Monitor" after her fight with the "Merrimac"
Crew of the original "Monitor" on her deck,
Crew of the original "Monitor" on her deck,
Crew of the original "Monitor" on her deck
Crew of the original "Monitor" on her deck
Mrs. [Lillie] Langtry in "As in the Looking Glass"
Intérieur de la batterie du Merrimac, pendant le combat avec le Monitor / C. Maurano(?).
Terrific combat between the "Monitor" 2 guns & "Merrimac" 10 guns The first fight between iron clad ships of war, in Hampton Roads, March 9th 1862, in which the little "Monitor" whipped the "Merrimac" and the whole " school" of Rebel steamers.
Intérieur de la batterie du Merrimac, pendant le combat avec le Monitor / C. Maurano(?).
The original "Monitor" after her fight with the "Merrimac"
Summary
Stereograph showing Union soldiers on deck by the turret of the U.S.S. Monitor seen from the stern.
No. 486.
Part of series: The War for the Union. Photographic War History, 1861-1865.
Attributed to James F. Gibson, based on LC-B811-486.
Library has three copies.
Forms part of: Civil War Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).
Exhibited: "War/Photography : Photographs of Armed Conflict and its Aftermath" at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, 2012-2013.
Copy 2 Exhibited: "War/Photography : Photographs of Armed Conflict and its Aftermath" at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2013.
Copy 3 Exhibited: "War/Photography : Photographs of Armed Conflict and its Aftermath" at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, N.Y., 2013-2014.
Original negative is: LC-B811-486.
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.