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 ...

The ironclad ship was ramming Union gun boats in the waterways of North Carolina, according to the Medal of Honor Historical Society.