The old wooden ship you are referring to is the USS Merrimack, which was scuttled by the Union Navy and later raised by the Confederates. They converted it into an ironclad warship, renaming it the CSS Virginia. This ship famously faced off against the USS Monitor in the first battle between ironclad warships during the Civil War.
merrimac
The Union which was comprised mainly of northern states.
The North were referred to as the Union troops and the South was called the Confederates. Their nicknames were the North Yankees and the South Rebels.
So that it could not be captured by the north.
The civil war was the North and south or the Union and Confederates
merrimac
The Confederates
The Federalists were the North. The Confederates were the South. Federalists were against slavery and the Confederates were for slavery. Confederates is against the federalists, or opposite the federalists. CONfederalists.
No they were the south.
The Union which was comprised mainly of northern states.
The North IMPROVEMENT. The Confederates.
From the north!
The union (north) and confederates (south)
North was Union, and South was Confederates.
The Confederates were the Southern slave-states that had seceded from the USA. The Union (North) was what was left.
The Confederates are the Southern soldiers.
Union (north) and confederates (south)