The battle that occurred between the USS Monitor and the CSS Virginia was significant because it was the first between ironclad warships. The battle occurred in 1862.
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The inventor of the USS Monitor was John Ericsson. The CSS Virginia was not "invented". It was first a Union warship called the USS Merrimack. It had been burned by retreating Union forces at the naval base of Norfolk. The ship was resurrected into an ironclad and named the CSS Virginia. There is no credit given as to the "inventor" in as much as it was not "invented".
It was the first time in naval history that ironclad ships faced each other.
261 people died at the Battle of the Monitor and Merrimack (renamed the CSS Virginia).
The Battle of Hampton Roads, often called the Battle of Monitor and Merrimack, was a naval battle of the American Civil War, famous for being the first fight between two ironclad warships, the USS Monitor and the CSS Virginia.
The battle of Monitor vs. Merrimack (renamed the CSS Virginia) was fought on the 8th and 9th of March in the year 1862 in Hampton Roads, Virginia The Monitor did not arrive in time for the first day of the battle.
The CSS Virginia and the USS Monitor had their clash on the morning of 9 March 1862.
USS Monitor, CSS Virginia was the Confederate vessel.
On 9 March 1862.
The USS Monitor and the USS Merrimac were both vessels in the US Navy. They did not fight. The Merrimac was sunk at the beginning of the war. The Confederate Navy took the remains of the Merrimac and used it to create the Ironclad CSS Virginia. The USS Monitor and the CSS Virginia fought a battle near Hampton Roads Virginia.
The USS Monitor and the CSS Virginia fought at Hampton Roads on March 9, 1862, during Union general McClellan's "Peninsula Campaign".