The Greatest Invention of the Civil War
by
Anna Gibson Holloway, Jonathan W. White
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
On March 9, 1862, the USS Monitor and CSS Virginia met in the Battle of Hampton Roads-the first time ironclad vessels would engage each other in combat. For four hours the two ships pummeled one another as thousands of Union and Confederate soldiers and civilians watched from the shorelines. Although...