the waters of the American Civil War. Their battle in 1862 at Newport

News Point is still considered one of the best and most exciting naval

engagements of all times. The reason people think of it as the battle of the

"Monitor and the Merrimack" is because the Merrimack had been the

Virginia's name when she was still a union ship. Since the Union won the

war, they wrote the history with their name for her.

When rebel forces were about to invade the port at Norfolk, the U.S.S.

Merrimack along with every other ship in the yard was set afire so not to be

captured by the enemy. But only her deck was destroyed. Her lower hull

was left intact. The Confederates took her and fitted her with an iron deck.

Each side carried 5 guns and one on the bow and on the stern. She was also

her ram made short work of the giant wooden targets.

The Monitor rode almost completely submerged, with the bare minimum

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