The brass bell — most of it, anyway — has survived the Battle of Hampton Roads, a Portsmouth church fire and the melting pot of a Baltimore foundry. Now it’s tucked away in a Civil War exhibit at the ...

NEWPORT NEWS, VA. - The museum conserving artifacts from the wreckage of the USS Monitor also is trying to tell the story of the Union ship’s Confederate opponent in the historic first clash of ...

NEWPORT NEWS (AP) -- The USS Merrimack will be recycled in the city where it was built. The Office of Congressional and Public Affairs in Washington, D.C., says the vessel is set to depart the James ...

Two Navy sailors slated for heroes’ burials at Arlington National Cemetery have waited a century and a half for the honor. The men were among the crew members who perished aboard the legendary Union ...

Oakland County Pioneer and Historical Society board member and an avid Civil War buff Bill Grandstaff will discuss the story of Franklin Buchanan, captain of the Merrimack at the next installment of ...

"Iron versus Wood: Sinking of the Cumberland by the Merrimac. In Hampton Roads, March 8, 1862." Oil painting by Edward Moran. (National Archives) NORFOLK, Va. — The brass bell, most of it, anyway, has ...

In the 1850s, Mystic, Groton and New London shipyards specialized in building “shallow-draft” vessels used in the coastal cotton trade in the Gulf of Mexico. Once the Civil War started, those ...

Historic ship sank off North Carolina coast in December 1862 Remains of the two soldiers were recovered by Navy divers in 2002 Monitor battled CSS Virginia %28aka the Merrimack%29 151 years ago ...

Silverware and other treasures recovered from the turret of the Union ironclad USS Monitor–plus a wealth of other artifacts relating to its famous Civil War clash with the CSS Virginia (a.k.a.

Experts hope that descendants of the recovered sailors may recognize them. March 8, 2012 — -- Do you recognize these handsome gentlemen? They were sailors from the USS Monitor, who died during ...

The brass bell — most of it, anyway — has survived the Battle of Hampton Roads, a Portsmouth church fire and the melting pot of a Baltimore foundry. Now it’s tucked away in a Civil War exhibit at the ...