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How many union soldiers died at the battle of the monitor and the merrimac?
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It was a naval engagement. Few or no soldiers died.
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Union commander in battle Monitor v Merrimac?
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Is the monitor a union ship or confederate ship?
The Monitor was a Union warship. It fought the Merrimac(k) and lost on March 9 1862
Which ship defeated the Merrimac at the Battle of Hampton Roads?
The Union warship USS Monitor defeated the Confederate warship USS Merrimack in the Battle of Hampton Roads. This is also known as the Battle of the Ironclads.
Who were the commanders of monitor and merrimac?
Lt. John L. Worden commanded the Monitor for the Union and the Merrimac (which had been renamed the Virginia by the time of Hampton Roads) was led by Franklin Buchanan, however the Merrimac (pre-ironclad and Civil War) was led by Capt. Garrett J. Pendergast.
How many union soldiers fought in the Battle of Shiloh?
there was 39,830 soldiers on the Union side in battle of shiloh
What happened to the Monitor and the Merrimack?
The USS Monitor was the first ironclad built by Ericsson for the Union Navy. The USS Merrimac was a steam ship that was in dock in the Norfolk shipyards when the Confederates captured the city. It was burned to the waterline.
Civil war iron clad ships?
The USS Monitor was the first Union submarine (it was, in reality, only semi-submersible). The USS Merrimac(k) was salvaged by the Confederate Navy and plated with iron (iron clad) and commissioned as the CSS Virginia. The Monitor and the Virginia went at it in the Battle of Hampton Roads. This went down in history as the first battle between two ironclads.
Did the Monitor defeat the Merrimac at Hampton Roads in the first battle of ironclads?
It was really a stand-off - ending with the Confederate ship staying in harbour. So it might be called a Union victory. But the Confederates had undoubtedly given the Union a heck of a fright (in the best Confederate spirit), and the battle did make a dramatic start to the age of the ironclad.
Why were the ironclad ships called Merrimack and the Monitor?
They weren't. They were the USS Monitor and the CSS Virginia. The CSS Virginia was built from the hull of the USS Merrimac, which was sunk and burned by the Union when they left the shipyard.
Why were the ironclad ships called the monitor and the Merrimack?
They weren't. They were the USS Monitor and the CSS Virginia. The CSS Virginia was built from the hull of the USS Merrimac, which was sunk and burned by the Union when they left the shipyard.
Was the Merrimac a Union ship?
The USS Merrimac had been s ship of the US (Union) Navy. She was in drydock at the Navy base at Norfolk, Virginia when the Rebels were about to capture the Navy Yard, so the withdrawing Union sailors set her on fire, and she burned down to the waterline. The Rebels took what was left of her and built their ironclad on top of the remains, which was the bottom of the ship and its engines. This new vessel looked nothing like the old Merrimac and was renamed the CSS Virginia. So the battle of the ironclads was really the Monitor versus the Virginia. But it sounds so much cooler to be alliterative so the newspaper headlines were "Monitor vs. Merrimac", which had the additional virtue of not recognizing anything the southern government did, such as renaming the remnants of Union ships whose wreckage passed into their hands, on top of which they had built a completely different type of ship.
How many Union soldiers were fighting at the Battle of Gettysburg?
97,000 Union soldiers
