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The alliteration of Monitor and Merrimack has persuaded most popular accounts to adopt the familiar name, even when it is acknowledged to be technically incorrect. A CSS Merrimac [91] did actually exist. She was a paddle wheel steamer named for the victor (as most Southerners saw it) at Hampton Roads.
John Lorimer Worden (March 12, 1818 – October 19, 1897) was a U.S. Navy officer in the American Civil War, who took part in the Battle of Hampton Roads, the first-ever engagement between ironclad steamships at Hampton Roads, Virginia, on 9 March 1862.
Louis Napoleon Stodder (February 12, 1837 – October 8, 1911) was a U.S. Navy officer who served in the American Civil War as acting master on the famous USS Monitor when it fought the Merrimack [a] at Hampton Roads on March 8–9, 1862.
USS Monitor was an ironclad warship built for the United States Navy during the American Civil War and completed in early 1862, the first such ship commissioned by the Navy. [a] Monitor played a central role in the Battle of Hampton Roads on 9 March under the command of Lieutenant John L. Worden, where she fought the casemate ironclad CSS Virginia (built on the hull of the scuttled steam ...
CSS Virginia was the first steam-powered ironclad warship built by the Confederate States Navy during the first year of the American Civil War; she was constructed as a casemate ironclad using the razéed (cut down) original lower hull and engines of the scuttled steam frigate USS Merrimack.
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Here's what CFP selection committee chair Warde Manuel said on Sunday on why the Mustangs won out the final seeding in the College Football Playoff: ... suffered their only loss outside of ...
Donovan Wadley returned the second-half kickoff 90 yards for a score and had two touchdown catches as Merrimack defeated Long Island University 39-0 on Saturday for the Warriors' third straight win.