![]() The Monitor, while seemingly invulnerable to land and sea firepower, possessed limited offensive capability, given its armament of two 11-inch guns. Based on the limited experience of the Hampton Roads clash, Congress approved a massive program to build monitor ironclads. Confederate land batteries severely damaged the latter craft while hardly injuring the Monitor.Īlthough the Monitor was just one of three prototypical iron warships launched in mid-1862, its success at Hampton Roads beclouded Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles’ and other top-ranking naval officials’ thinking. A subsequent action at Drewry’s Bluff confirmed the Monitor‘s superior defensive capability compared with that of the Galena, a more conventional vessel, albeit with iron plating. ![]() ![]() The Monitor proved impervious to the Virginia‘s broadsides and captured the imaginations of naval officials and the public. Virginia from destroying the remainder of the Federal fleet anchored in Hampton Roads. The United States Navy’s newest warship prevented the C.S.S. Only the timely arrival of the Union Navy’s ironclad, the Monitor, averted a complete disaster. Virginia wreaked havoc upon the strong Federal fleet in Hampton Roads in April 1862. He adroitly uses the major sources and creates a well-conceived and well-written book on the northern effort to build a fleet of ironclads.Ĭivil War-era observers believed that ironclad warships would be decisive … and why not? The ironclad C.S.S. His book is an excellent addition to the growing literature concerning the Civil War and the American economy. in history from Ohio State University, has written a valuable book on ironclad warships. Reviewed for EH.NET by David Surdam, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago. ![]() Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. ![]() Navy and Industrial Mobilization Author(s): ![]()
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