On August 6, 1862, as part of the Battle of Baton Rouge, the Confederate ironclad named “Arkansas” was sent to fight the ...

A short History Clip of how the Ironclad ships were used during the Civil War. And the battle between the Css Virginia and the USS Monitor. The Civil War history runs deep in Virginia!

Union commanders realized that their ironclads clustered their men into a few boats, so they improvised and created a fleet of tinclads, also known as “mosquitoes.” ...

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) — As the USS Monitor sank in the Atlantic during a storm off the coast of North Carolina on Dec. 31, 1862, the sailors knew they couldn't save the Union ironclad. So ...

That recent day, pint-sized Confederate forts fell to tiny versions of the Union ironclad warships USS Galena and USS Monitor in an American Civil War naval scenario, based on the real-life 1862 ...

Experience history firsthand at the CSS Neuse Civil War Museum during the second annual “Sailors in the Summer: Ironclads and ...

During the Battle of Columbus, Union Soldiers set fire to a ship, which now sets sail on mock waters in the museum. The ironclad ship named the CSS Jackson, also called the Muscogee, was set ...