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Tag Archives: The CSS Virginia
The Merrimac: The Two Incarnations
The USS Merrimac of Civil War history is sometimes spelled with a “k”. But I live in the Tidewater Virginia area, where it is always spelled with the “c”. The Best of Its Kind When the USS Merrimac was built … Continue reading
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Tagged Abraham Lincoln, American history, CSA Secretary of the Navy Stephen Mallory, Feather Schwartz Foster, firing on Ft. Sumter, Gosford Naval Yard, history, President Lincoln, Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles, The Battle of Hampton Roads, The Battle of the Ironclads, The CSS Virginia, The Merrimac, The Merrimack, The Monitor, The USS Cumberland, US history
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Gideon Welles and the Naval Battle
Gideon Welles was Secretary of the Navy during the Civil War. March 9, 1862 It was a Sunday. Navy Secretary Gideon Welles rushed over to Lincoln’s office, where he found the President and Secretary of War Edwin Stanton in a … Continue reading
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Tagged Abraham Lincoln, American history, Civil War history, Edwin M. Stanton, Feather Schwartz Foster, General George McClellan, Gideon Welles, history, Inventor John Ericcson, naval history, naval inventor John Ericcson, President Abraham Lincoln, President James Buchanan, Presidential history, Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles, Secretary of war Edwin M. Stanton, The battle at Hampton Roads, the battle between the US ironclads, The Civil War, The CSS Virginia, The Mariners Museum, The Merrimac, The Merrimack, The USS Monitor, US history, White House history
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