Tag: Civil War
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Stevens’s Battery
Friday, October 20, 2023 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
USRMS Naugatuck, fought with USS Monitor during the Battle of Drewry’s Bluff on May 15, 1862, and then decommissioned.
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New Navy Monitors
Friday, September 29, 2023 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
Join us for a Monitor presentation with historian John V. Quarstein, director emeritus of the USS Monitor Center, as he presents about the US Navy’s attempt to modernize and build new classes of monitors.
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Deserting USS Monitor
Friday, September 8, 2023 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
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USS Monitor’s Multinational Crew
Friday, August 18, 2023 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
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What Happened to All the Civil War Ironclads?
Friday, August 4, 2023 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
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USS Galena: USN’s First Seagoing Ironclad
Friday, July 28, 2023 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
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Worden in the Mexican War
Friday, July 14, 2023 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
John L. Worden transferred from the US Naval Observatory to secure an active role in the Mexican War.
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Rear Admiral John A. B. Dahlgren
Friday, April 28, 2023 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
Join us for a Monitor presentation with historian John V. Quarstein, director emeritus of the USS Monitor Center, as he talks about the “father of American naval ordnance.”
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POSTPONED: Who was the Civil War’s first POW?
Friday, April 14, 2023 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
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After USS Monitor
Saturday, March 11, 2023 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
The success of USS Monitor during the Battle of Hampton Roads prompted the Union to greatly expand the construction of monitors.