Monitor and the Merrimac: Both sides of the story
Author: first_name: Samuel
last_name: Greene
first_name: H. Ashton
last_name: Ramsay
first_name: Eugene Winslow
last_name: Watson
first_name: John
last_name: Worden
Language: English
Year: 1912

The American Civil War lasted four years, from 1861 to 1865. It included some iconic battles that have maintained enough interest to merit recounting the events in countless books. One such seminal battle was that of the USS Monitor versus the USS Merrimack, two ironclad ships, repurposed and redesigned to have a defensive advantage against conventional wooden war ships of the 19th century. The Monitor and the Merrimack faced off in a duel in the harbor at Hampton Roads, Virginia. The event repr