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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