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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 59221

"The Ericsson Battery 'Monitor' driving off the 'Merrimac'"


Line engraving published in "Harper's Weekly", January-June 1862, page 184-85, depicting the 9 March 1862 action in Hampton Roads, Virginia, between CSS Virginia and USS Monitor.
The scene is rather inaccurate in scale and detail, most significantly showing other Federal warships much closer to the action than was actually the case.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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26 April 2001