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Under Fire: A Gunner on USS Congress in the Battle of Hampton Roads

Under Fire: A Gunner on USS Congress in the Battle of Hampton Roads

by editor | Oct 20, 2021 | Archive, Homepage, Southern Partisan

The fearsome Rebel ironclad CSS Virginia (ex USS Merrimack, aka Merrimac) materialized in Hampton Roads, Virginia, that calm and clear Saturday morning, March 8, 1862. “The ‘Merrimac’ was steaming slowly towards us,” recalled Seaman Frederick H. Curtis of the wooden...

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