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.
It ended up as a draw. It was a tactical draw, but the Merrimack withdrew from the area after the engagement, and did not challenge the Monitor again. So, that makes it a strategic win for the Monitor.
CSA ironclad Virginia attempted to defeat US fleet which was blockading Hampton Roads on March 8, 1862 succeeding in sinking the USNS Cumberland, forcing the USNS Congress to surrender and scattering others Union ships.
In the evening Virginia retired, planning to resume the attack the following day.
But during the night the US ironclad Monitor joined undetected the remains of the fleet, so when Virginia set out on the 8th it was engaged in a close combat with the Monitor. The fight remain undecided but Virginia didn't dare to set out to fight again and was destroyed by the Confederates when, on May 9th a Federal land attack forced them to evacuate Norfolk.
It was a draw, neither sunk
The Merrimac,
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.
March 9 1862
In Hampton Roads, Viginia, USA in 1862. The Merrimac had by this time been rebuilt and renamed the CSS Virginia
The Merrimac(the south's ship) and the Monitor(the North's ship)
No. The battle had no clear winner.
Monitor-Merrimac Memorial Bridge-Tunnel was created in 1992.
The fight between the USS Monitor and the CSS Virginia (which you have called the Merrimac) was a draw (a tie).
The address of the Monitor Merrimac Memorial is: 218 Florida Ave, Portsmouth, VA 23707-1617
Lincoln won
The Merrimac,
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.
monitor and merrimac were in a draw
It was a draw.
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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1862