num_pages: 128
description: Battle of the Ironclads brings to life the dramatic events which occurred in Hampton Roads on March 8 and 9 1862. This first battle between armored vessels often called the Monitor-Merrimack engagement is perhaps the most significant naval event of the entire Civil War. This thrilling history is the first volume to offer a comprehensive pictorial interpretation of the men and ships that forever changed naval warfare. Over 150 images including photographs engravings paintings and sketches have been gathered from museums archives and private collections to chronicle the exciting story of the U.S.S. Monitor and the C.S.S. Virginia (Merrimack). While Battle of the Ironclads is a visual history of the first battle between armored ships it is also a saga of uncommon valor and leadership epitomized by Franklin Buchanan George U. Morris Samuel Dana Greene and John Taylor Wood. The brilliant innovations of John Mercer Brooke and the farsighted inventions of John Ericsson made this showdown in Hampton Roads a death for wooden sailing ships. Battle of the Ironclads is indeed an epic tale that tells how steam-powered iron vessels not only influenced the Civil War but more importantly how the two ironclads echoed the dawn of modern navies.
language: English
title: The Battle of the Ironclads
publisher: Arcadia Publishing