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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 ...
Civil War monitors of the United States include monitors designed, ... USS Monitor; USS Montauk (1862) N. USS Nahant (1862) USS Nantucket (1862) USS Neosho (1863) O.
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.
The first five of these were ostensibly rebuilds of Civil War era monitors (in much the same way that the 1854 sloop-of-war Constellation was ostensibly a refit of the 1797 sail frigate Constellation). In fact, they were entirely new ships, much larger and more capable than the previous ones. Dates listed are the first commissioning dates.
In Latin, a monitor is someone who admonishes: that is, reminds others of their duties—which is how USS Monitor was given its name. [citation needed] It was designed by John Ericsson for emergency service in the Federal navy during the American Civil War (1861–65) to blockade the Confederate States from supply at sea. Ericsson designed her ...
The History of the 127th New York Volunteers, "Monitors," in the War for the Preservation of the Union -- September 8th, 1862, June 30th, 1865 (S.l.: s.n.), 1898. Mulvihill, William. The Clamdiggers: The Story of Company K, 127th New York State Volunteer Regiment in the Civil War (Sag Harbor, NY: s.n.), 1990.
Blue & Gray Navies: the Civil War Afloat. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-59114-882-0. United States Department of the Navy, Naval History Department (1971). Civil War Naval Chronology, 1861–1865. Government Printing Office. Wise, Stephen R. (1988). Lifeline of the Confederacy: Blockade Running During the Civil War. University of ...
The Passaic-class ironclad monitors of the U.S. Navy saw service in the U.S. Civil War and the Spanish–American War. The class was an improved version of USS Monitor equipped with a 15-inch Dahlgren gun in place of one of the 11-inch guns.