CSPAN USS Monitor Center August 16, 2014
One of the things were best known for is the uss monitor center. That is something we have done in partnership with the National Oceanic and atmospheric association, and it really tells of the uss ironclad monitor that went on to fight the merrimack, otherwise known as the css virginia, in the first battle of ironclad vessels. That happened in 1860 two and this is a fitting place for the center. Was built inor response to the growing confederate threat here. Begins at or see was building an iron the confederacy was building an ironclad vessel. The whole purpose behind the virginia was to break...
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