Myron J. Smith, Jr, the author of many works on the naval side of the Civil War, such as The Timberclads in the Civil War, Civil War Biographies from the Western Waters, and Joseph Brown and His Civil ...

A short History Clip of how the Ironclad ships were used during the Civil War. And the battle between the Css Virginia and the USS Monitor. The Civil War history runs deep in Virginia!

Books of Interest The Battle of Manila: Poisoned Victory in the Pacific War The Fate of the Day: The War for America, Fort Ticonderoga to ... Confederate Ironclads and Steam Engineering in the ...

Friday's 150th anniversary of the pivotal battle between the Civil War's first ironclad ships at Hampton Roads, Va., arrived without fanfare in the city that forged the resilient iron skin of the ...

Decade of Disunion: How Massachusetts and South Carolina Led the Way to Civil War, 1849-1861, by Robert W. Merry.Simon & Schuster, 528 pages. With Decade of Disunion: How Massachusetts and South ...

On August 16, 1867, a young farmer named Alfred McDonald Sargent Johnson walked into the courthouse of Cherokee County, Georgia. He had an oath to swear. The effects of the Civil War were still ...

Turret of sunken Civil War ironclad rich in artifacts. Silver tableware, other galley items found in Monitor's gun emplacement. By LEE BOWMAN, SCRIPPS HOWARD NEWS SERVICE Dec 26, 2002.

But Varon's book suggests that Bowser's true name was Mary Richards, she survived the Civil War and married a man named Garvin. Richards even writes in an 1867 letter that during the Civil War she ...

The book opens by highlighting how both parties changed between the Civil War and modern times, with the Democratic Party going from being the party of the enslavers to the home of progressive ...

The book tells the main events of Claremont since George Harrison, a Jamestown settler, first claimed the land in 1621. The Allen family held Claremont for 205 years, from 1681 to 1886.

One-hundred-fifty-year-old ghosts rarely look so detailed. In 1862, two ironclad warships from opposing sides of the American Civil War blasted each other silly in the Battle of Hampton Roads ...