When the Civil War started, the Confederate States of ... It took up a position to protect the grounded USS Minnesota. Knowing the Minnesota was stuck, it became Virginia’s first target that ...

Howard Pyle’s "The Battle of Nashville" captures the harrowing advance of Minnesota soldiers through smoke and mud in a pivotal Civil War clash. If the Minnesota State Capitol were on fire ...

The Union blockaded the Confederate coast during the American Civil War as part of the Anaconda ... hoping to destroy the grounded USS Minnesota. Instead, she encountered the USS Monitor, another ...

During the Cold War America had a little under 100 nuclear powered attack submarines in its fleet. The USS Minnesota (SSN-783) Virginia-class fast attack submarine sails in the waters off the West ...