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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 42212

"Desperate Encounter Between the Ericsson Battery 'Monitor' 2 Guns, and the 'Merrimac' 12 Guns"

"In Hampton Roads, March 9th 1862."
"In Which the 'Monitor' was Victorious. The 'Merrimac' Being Finally Towed Off in a Disabled Condition"

Contemporary print, depicting the action between USS Monitor and CSS Virginia (ex-USS Merrimack).

Collection of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 122KB; 740 x 565 pixels

 

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1 May 2001