Special Event: Campfire Talk Series – USS Monitor – Past, Present, and Future
USS Monitor - Past, Present, and Future It was March 9th, 1862, when a cheesebox on a raft fought right off the shores of Fort Monroe in the first battle where iron met iron. USS Monitor, the nation’s first ironclad, engaged the Confederate ironclad CSS Virginia in the Battle of Hampton Roads in a valiant attempt to save the Union. […]