num_pages: 42
description: Step into the history books with 'The Monitor and the Merrimac' by Samuel Dana Greene, H. Ashton Ramsay, Eugene Winslow Watson, and John Lorimer Worden. This first-hand account of the Battle of the Ironclads in Hampton Roads, Virginia, takes readers aboard the Union ship the Monitor and Confederate ship the Merrimack. This short but powerful book captures the essence of the American Civil War and naval history, including the use of torpedoes, revolving gun turrets, and rifled gun barrels.
language: English
title: The Monitor and the Merrimac: Both sides of the story
publisher: Good Press