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Images of USS Monitor, Civil War Ironclad

The USS Monitor Battled the CSS Virginia in 1862

The age of ironclad warships dawned during the American Civil War, when the Union's USS Monitor and the Confederacy's CSS Virginia clashed in March 1862.

These images show how the unusual warships made history.

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John Ericsson, Inventor of The Monitor	The Monitor's Design Was Startling	The USS Merrimac Was Converted to the CSS Virginia	The Historic Clash of Ironclads
The Battle Between the Monitor and the Virginia Was Intense	CSS Virginia Was Destroyed	Captain Jeffers On the Deck of the Battle-Damaged Monitor	Crewmen On the Deck of the Monitor
The Monitor Sank in Rough Seas	Other Ironclads Called Monitors Were Built	A Monitor With Two Turrets	The Turret of the Monitor Was Raised