. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . COPYRIGHT, 1911, REVIEW OF REVIEWS CO* THE NORFOLK NAV\-YARDWHERE THE VIRGINIA WAS BUILT When those two que(r-Io<iking eraft—theMonitor and the Virginia (Merri-niac)—approached each other in HamptonRoads on Sunday morning, March 9, 1862,much more hung in the balance to be de-cided than the mere question of whichshould win. These were no foreign foesthat opposed each other, but men of the samerace, and the fighting-machines which theybrought into action epitomized t
. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . COPYRIGHT, 1911, REVIEW OF REVIEWS CO* THE NORFOLK NAV\-YARDWHERE THE VIRGINIA WAS BUILT When those two que(r-Io<iking eraft—theMonitor and the Virginia (Merri-niac)—approached each other in HamptonRoads on Sunday morning, March 9, 1862,much more hung in the balance to be de-cided than the mere question of whichshould win. These were no foreign foesthat opposed each other, but men of the samerace, and the fighting-machines which theybrought into action epitomized the best judg-ment of men that had been trained in the samenavy. The fact that ironclad vessels wereto engage for the first time in a momentousconflict was of minor significance. Europehad already taken a long step toward theemployment of armor plate; not its place innaval warfare, but the manner in which itwas to be given effectiveness by .\mericanbrains, was at stake. Of these two new ar-mored knights of the sea, the Virginia
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