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    CSS Virginia was the first steam-powered ironclad warship built by the Confederate States Navy during the first year of the American Civil War; she was...
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    the Battle of the Monitor and Merrimack (rebuilt and renamed as the CSS Virginia) or the Battle of Ironclads, was a naval battle during the American Civil...
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    CSS Virginia II was a Confederate Navy steam-powered ironclad ram laid down in 1862 at the William Graves' shipyard in Richmond, Virginia. Acting Constructor...
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    USS Merrimack (1855) (category Shipwrecks of the Virginia coast)
    hull upon which the ironclad warship CSS Virginia was constructed during the American Civil War. The CSS Virginia then took part in the Battle of Hampton...
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    appraised by the Union Navy. The keel for CSS Texas was laid down at Rocketts Naval Yard, just outside Richmond, Virginia. She was launched in mid-January 1865...
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    of Lieutenant John L. Worden, where she fought the casemate ironclad CSS Virginia (built on the hull of the scuttled steam frigate USS Merrimack) to a...
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    Confederate Navy during the American Civil War. He also commanded the ironclad CSS Virginia. Franklin Buchanan was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on September 13,...
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    Confederate States Navy to raise and rebuild her as the broadside ironclad CSS Virginia. Shortly after her famous engagement with the U.S Navy monitor USS Monitor...
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  • ship that CSS Virginia was built upon CSS Virginia II, an ironclad ram. USRC Virginia for ships of the US Revenue Cutter Service USS Virginian USS West...
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    William A. Webb (category Military personnel from Virginia)
    exchange in October 1864 and returned to action on the CSS Richmond. William A. Webb grew up in Virginia. He joined the United States Navy at an early age...
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  • Mary Louvestre (category People from Norfolk, Virginia)
    of the wrecked USS Merrimack to an ironclad that would be named the CSS Virginia and which represented a great advance in Confederate naval capabilities...
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  • The CSS Beaufort (/ˈbjuːfərt/ BEW-fert) was an iron-hull gunboat that served in North Carolina and Virginia during the American Civil War. Originally...
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    Constructor, John L. Porter, based on his earlier work on the ironclad CSS Virginia, retaining the traditional curving ship-type hull, but with flat ends...
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    1865 CSS Tuscaloosa, ironclad steam floating battery, scuttled: April 12, 1865 CSS Virginia, screw steamer, ironclad ram, destroyed: May 11, 1862 CSS Virginia...
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  • CSS Raleigh may refer to: CSS Raleigh (1861) was a gunboat that served as a tender to CSS Virginia during the Battle of Hampton Roads CSS Raleigh (1864)...
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    Battle of Hampton Roads on March 8–March 9, 1862, acting as tender to CSS Virginia. She received the thanks of the Congress of the Confederate States for...
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    tradition of reusing captured ships, the new warship was christened CSS Virginia. She later fought the Union's new ironclad USS Monitor. On the second...
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    escaped through Dismal Swamp Canal to Norfolk, Virginia. On March 8–9, 1862, Raleigh was tender to CSS Virginia during the historic Battle of Hampton Roads...
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  • Cutter Service CSS Virginia was the first Confederate States Navy ironclad, built using the hull of the captured USS Merrimack CSS Virginia II, an ironclad...
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    the CSS Virginia, the world's first ironclad ship used in war. The Confederate States Congress shared quarters in the Jefferson-designed Virginia State...
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  • Virginia) CSS Virginia (II) CSS Virginia CSS Jamestown CSS Patrick Henry CSS Teaser CSS Beaufort CSS Raleigh CSS Hampton CSS Nansemond CSS Virginia II...
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    Catesby ap Roger Jones (category People of Virginia in the American Civil War)
    Confederate Navy during the American Civil War. He assumed command of CSS Virginia during the Battle of Hampton Roads and engaged USS Monitor in the historic...
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    the broadside of the ironclad CSS Virginia. Two were mounted fore and aft on pivot carriages aboard the ironclad gunboat CSS Neuse. Two others were mounted...
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    many casualties. On the second day of the battle, USS Monitor engaged CSS Virginia, allowing tugs to free Minnesota on the morning of 10 March. Minnesota...
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    and CSS Atlanta, USS Atlanta. Navy Heritage Archived April 7, 2010, at the Library of Congress Web Archives. In both events, as with the CSS Virginia, the...
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    battle between the ironclad warships USS Monitor and CSS Virginia was fought in Hampton Roads. The Virginia was attempting to break the Union blockade that...
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    CSS Manassas, formerly the steam icebreaker Enoch Train, was built in 1855 by James O. Curtis as a twin-screw towboat at Medford, Massachusetts. A New...
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    ordnance and armor tests for the first Confederate ironclad warship, CSS Virginia, which was under construction at the Gosport Naval Shipyard in Portsmouth...
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    gleaned from the exploits of such vessels as CSS Virginia herself, CSS Arkansas, CSS Albemarle and CSS Tennessee (1863).[citation needed] In their specific...
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    CSS Patrick Henry was a ship built in New York City in 1859 by the renowned William H. Webb for the Old Dominion Steam Ship Line as the civilian steamer...
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