CIVIL WAR: The First Iron Clad Naval Engagement in the World: History of Facts of the Great Naval Battle between the Merrimac-Virginia CSN and the Ericsson Monitor USN (Softcover)
by E V White. 1906.
The text recounts the historic naval battle between the Merrimac-Virginia and the Ericsson Monitor in Hampton Roads in 1862. It describes the transformation of the Merrimac into the iron battery Virginia, its engagements with various Union ships, the panic in the North, and the arrival of the Monitor as a beacon of hope. The intense second day’s engagement and the ultimate defeat of the Merrimac are also vividly portrayed.