Two months after the CSS Virginia battled the Union Monitor, the Confederates destroyed the Virginia as they retreated from Norfolk, Virginia
The secession of the Western Counties of Virginia from the Confederate State of Virginia.
Virginia
Richmond, Virginia
Richmond, Virginia was the capital of the Confederate States of America.
Richmond, Virginia
The Union Ironclad ship was the Monitor. The Confederate ship was the Virginia.
C.S.S. Virginia
Neither side won
Neither side won
Neither side won
the Virginia it was a large ship covered in well iron(betcha didn't see the one coming
C.S.S. Virginia- formerly the Merrimac.
The Union ship the "Monitor", and the Confederate ship "Virginia". The Virginia was formerly the Union vessel "Merrimack", which was sunk and raised, refitted with iron plates by the Confederates. The battle was a tactical draw, as neither ship could do much damage.
The Union Ironclad Ship that was built to compete with the Confederate Ironclad was called the U.S.S. Monitor and the Confederate Ironclad was called the Merrimack (more accurately, the CSS Virginia).
Robert Edward Lee surrendered him and the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia.
The Union ship called the USS Merrimack was captured by the South. The ship had been burned by the Union forces, but the Confederate forces took it and rebuilt it into an ironclad ship. It was renamed as the CSS Virginia.
The Monitor was an ironclad ship created by the Union to battle against the Confederate ironclad called the Virginia (Merrimack).