In 1862, the most important naval battle of the Civil War took place in Hampton Roads, Va., the clash between the Monitor and the Merrimac. My relative, John L. Porter, was the engineer who designed and constructed the Confederacy’s first ironclad ship, the Merrimac. Naval records show that the Merrimac destroyed a fleet of wooden […]
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