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Naval Battles

Engagements at sea, replayed on the chart: where each ship lay, how it moved, and when the guns spoke, drawn from the officers’ own reports.

  1. 8–9 March 1862Battle of Hampton RoadsOn 8 March 1862 the Confederate ironclad Virginia, rebuilt on the burned hull of the frigate Merrimack, steamed out of Norfolk into Hampton Roads, where a Union squadron lay at anchor. In one afternoon she rammed and sank the sloop Cumberland, drove the frigate Congress aground and set her on fire, and left the steam frigate Minnesota stranded on a shoal.American Civil War

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