Unlike Anything That Ever Floated

A history of the American Civil War naval battle, the first confrontation between two Ironclads, featuring accounts from men who lived through it."Ironclad against ironclad, we maneuvered about the bay here and went at each other with mutual fierceness," reported Chief Engineer Alban Stimers following that momentous engagement between the USS Monitor and the CSS Virginia (ex USS Merrimack) in Hamp...