No one had to guess who had the strongest navy when the Civil War started. The Union boasted 42 ships, while the Confederacy had none. And both sides knew the struggle might be won or lost by the ...

“With all the archival data and that real archaeological data coming together, we’ve built the most accurate virtual model ever of Monitor, and I'm not just talking just the shell of it. Every single ...

At last, the Fredericksburg Area Museum is adequately defended. An 8,300-pound cannon — an artifact from the Confederate ironclad CSS Virginia — was recently put in place outside the museum, its ...

On March 9, 1862, Confederate Navy ship CSS Virginia and Union navy ship USS Monitor met in battle off the coast of Virginia. Their clash was inconclusive, but the battle was the first time metal ...

On March 8, 1862, Hampton Roads, Virginia, became the stage for a naval clash that would change warfare at sea forever. The Confederate ironclad CSS Virginia (rebuilt from the captured Union scuttled ...