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They are the first ironclad, steam powered, warships. They made wooden sailing vessels obsolete.

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It was a draw.


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There were several dozen, maybe twice as many in the Union Navy as in the Confederate. But the two most famous were among the very first, and fought each other in 1862, revolutionizing naval warfare for all nations. This is remembered as the Monitor versus the Merrimac. The USS Monitor was the northern ship, and the other was the CSS Virginia. The Virginia was built on the remains of the old USS Merrimac, a ship burned by the Union Navy when they had to abandon the Norfolk Navy Yard. But Monitor versus Merrimac sounds better than Monitor versus Virginia, so that's how newspapers reported it.


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.


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