Fast-forward several decades from that young lad and Bowers' hobby led him to construct a model of the Civil War ironclad, the USS Monitor, which the Mariner's Museum at Newport News, Va., might ...

Monitor By James Tertius deKay, Walker and Co., $21, 247 pp. The most decisive battle of the Civil War was, of course, Gettysburg. The South’s defeat there in July 1863 turned the tide perman… ...

To build their first ironclad warship, they raised the USS Merrimack, a wooden ship sunk when Virginia seceded from the Union to keep it out of rebel hands.

Over time, the ship’s casemate, the iron-covered upper portion of the warship, came apart. The small portion removed Nov. 12 will give archeologists the ability to assess the condition of the ...

In 1862, the USS Monitor — a Civil War-era ironclad warship — fought one of the world's first iron-armored battles against the Confederate ironclad CSS Virginia. Less than a year later, a ...

An underwater survey found what might be remnants of the Confederate ironclad warship Virginia, the former USS Merrimack that fought the Union's ironclad Monitor in the 1862 battle that redefined ...

The warship spent the next two years in the Washington Navy Yard, until it was seen by a Japanese purchasing agent that had been sent by the Japanese Tokugawa shogunate to America.