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March 09 – USS Monitor with Battle Damage
by Darren Cole on March 9, 2011
!["The Original <em>Monitor</em> after her Fight with the <em>Merrimac</em>. Near the port-hole can be seen the dents made by the heavy steel-pointed shot from the guns of the <em>Merrimac</em>. Hampton Roads, Virginia." 07/1862](http://blogs.archives.gov/todaysdocument/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/uss-monitor-post-battle-m.jpg ""The Original <em>Monitor</em> after her Fight with the <em>Merrimac</em>. Near the port-hole can be seen the dents made by the heavy steel-pointed shot from the guns of the <em>Merrimac</em>. Hampton Roads, Virginia." 07/1862")
The Original <em>Monitor</em> after her Fight with the <em>Merrimac</em>. Near the port-hole can be seen the dents made by the heavy steel-pointed shot from the guns of the <em>Merrimac</em>. Hampton Roads, Virginia. Stereo., 07/1862 (ARC ID 559269); Stereographs of the Civil War, 1861 - 1865; Library of Congress Collection, ca. 1905 - ca. 1909; National Archives.
On March 9, 1862, the first prophetic battle between ironclads — the USS Monitor and CSS Virginia (aka Merrimac) — took place at Hampton Roads, Virginia. Shown here is the USS Monitor several months later with evidence of battle damage.
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