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CSS Virginia (Merrimack)
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- Abbott, John Stevens Cabot
The History of the Civil War in America;
comprising a full and impartial account of the origin and progress of the rebellion, of the various naval and military engagements, of the heroic deeds performed by armies and individuals, and of touching scenes in the field, the camp, the hospital, and the cabin.
H.Bill, New York. 2 Vols. 1864-66. Vol 1, Chapter XIV: "The Merrimac and Monitor" pp. 336-352. The destruction of the Gosport Navy Yard by the Union is described on pages 100-103. (Online copy at the Making of America at UMich)
The errors are rampant in this article, both in what the author assumed and what he should have known.
- Abbott, Willis J.
Blue Jackets of '61
A History of the Navy in the War of Seccession
Dodd, Mead, and Company. New York. 1886. 319pp.
Chapter IX (pp 129-154) is about the Virginia and the Monitor. (Copy at MT)
- Adts,
N.
Le Monitor et le
Merrimac.
Paris C. Janera. 1862. 39 (I) pp. Plate.
- Amadon, George F.
Rise of the
Ironclads.
Pictorial Histories Publishing Company. Missoula, Montana.
1988.
Although this is a pictorial book, it has lots of
detail and is well documented. It includes most every relevant
picture or drawing related to the Ironclads. (75 pages) (Copy at
VPI, MT)
- An
Account of the reception given by the citizens of New York to the
survivors of the officers and crews of the U.S. frigates
"Cumberland" and "Congress."...
Apl. 10th, 1862. New York. J.A. Gray & Grim, prs.
[1862] 38pp. Plate.
Also in Moore, Frank. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events. Vol. 4. Jan 62 - May 62. pp 465-468. New York: G.P. Putnam, 1862.
- Anderson,
Bern.
By Sea and by River; The Naval
History of the Civil War.
Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. New York. 1962. Reprinted by Da Capo Press,
New York, 1989. 303pp.
(Copy at MT)
- Atlantic Monthly
"General McClellan"
Vol. 59, Issue 354, pp. 546-559. Atlantic Monthly Co., Boston. April 1887.
The critique of McClellan's Own Story discusses the effects of the Virginia on the Peninsula Campaign.
- Barthell,
Edward East
The Mystery of the
Merrimack.
Dana Printing Company, Muskegon, Michigan, 1959. 54p
Excellent exposition on the usage of "Merrimack"
versus "Merrimac". (Copy at LoV, HRNM, VMI,
NPL, UVA, UI-Urbana, MT)
This book has been reprinted and is available from the Mariners' Museum.
- Bathe, Greville.
Ship of
Destiny:
A record of the US Steam Frigate Merrimac, 1855-1862.
With an appendix on the development of the U.S. naval cannon from
1812-1865.
St. Augustine, FL. 1951. 82pp (Copy at
SMU)
- Baxter,
James Phinney.
The Introduction of the Ironclad
Warship.
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Univ. Press, 1933. 398 pp. (Reprinted 1966(?), 1968 by Archon) (Reprinted by the Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, MD. as part of the Classics of Naval Literature series, 2001) (Copy at LAPL, 2001 copy at MT)
- Bearss, Ed .
River of Lost
Opportunities.
H.E. Howard, Inc. Lynchburg, Virginia. 1995. 202pp
(Copy at VMI,
MT)
About the James River. Excellent description of the battle of Drewry's Bluff.
- Beatty, Patricia, and
Phillip Robbins.
Eben Tyne,
Powdermonkey.
New York : Morrow Junior Books, 1990. 227 pp.
A thirteen-year-old powdermonkey in the
Confederate navy joins the crew of the ironclad Merrimack in a
mission to break the Union blockade of Norfolk harbor. (Copy at
NPL, MT)
- Beers, Henry Putney
Guide to the Archives of the Government of the Confederate States of America
The National Archives and Records Service. General Services Administration. Washington. 1968 536pp. (Copy at MT)
- Beers, Henry Putney
The Confederacy. A Guide to the
Archives of the Government of the Confederate States of
America.
Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records
Administration.1998. 536pp.
Reprint from 1986 with a new title of the 1968 version. A guide to the information in the archives, with some pointers to information elsewhere. Very detailed. Highly recommended! However the book is wrong in that there is no card index to record group 45 for the time of the Civil War. (1998 Copy at MT)
- Bennett, Frank
Marion
The Monitor and the Navy Under
Steam.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1900. 369 pp. (Copy at
UMich, UNC)
- Berent, Irwin Mark
"Georgians Crewed the
Virginia."
in Georgia Genealogical Society Quarterly., v. 15, No. 1(
Spring 1979), pp. 123-127.
Describes
some of the Georgians who served on the CSS
Virginia.
- Berent, Irwin
Mark.
The Crewmen of the USS
Monitor:
A Biographical Directory
Dept. of Cultural Resources, Raleigh, N.C. 1982. 76pp.
In the U.S.S. Monitor National Marine Sanctuary
Historical report series ; vol. 2, no.1, Sponsored by National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, United States Department
of Commerce. (Copy at UI-Urbana, UW-Madison)
- Beschke, William
Memorial to the Congress,
government and people of the United States
:
concerning several great inventions of national importance, and
the infringements of a United States patent in building ironclad
vessels and iron turrets.
Submitted in January, 1865 . Philadelphia.1865. 53pp.
Microfiche. Louisville [Ky.] : Lost Cause Press, 1968, 3
microfiches. (Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary ... )
(Copy at Rice)
- Besse, Sumner
Bradford.
U.S. Ironclad Monitor, with data
and references for a scale model.
Newport News, Va., Mariners' Museum, 1936.
- Besse, Sumner
Bradford.
C.S. Ironclad Virginia, with data
and references for a scale model.
Newport News, Va., Mariners' Museum, 1937. 47pp. Museum
Publication #4.
(Copy at LoV, VMI, NPL, WMVa, UVA)
- Besse, Sumner
Bradford.
C.S. Ironclad Virginia and U.S.
Ironclad Monitor, with data and references for a scale
model.
Newport News, Va., Mariners' Museum, 1978.
- Besse, Sumner
Bradford.
C.S. Ironclad Virginia and U.S.
Ironclad Monitor.
Newport News, Va., Mariners' Museum, 1996. 54pp
The Mariners' Museum is offering a 1996 revised edition of the 1933 & 1978 book for $10.95. (Copy at MT)
- Blair, Clay.
Diving for Pleasure and
Treasure
.
With photographs by Walter Bennett. World Pub. Co.
Cleveland, OH. 1960. 348pp.
- Black, Wallace B.
Blockade-Runners and
Ironclads:
Naval Action in the Civil War.
F. Watts. New York. 1997
Juvenile Literature.
- Bowen, John.
The History and Battlefields of
the Civil War
.
Edison, N. J.: Quarto Publishing Co. (Wellfleet Press), 1991. 351
pp.
- Boynton, Charles
B.
The History of the Navy During
the Rebellion.
New York: Appleton, 1867-68. 2 vols.
- Bradford, Ned (Editor).
Battles and Leaders of the Civil War.
Meridian (Penguin Books USA), New York. 1989. 626pp 








Originally published in 1956, this book reprints the words of the participants of the Civil War. It contains articles by Lt. Wood of the Virginia and Lt. Greene of the Monitor. This is just a subset of the works in the full Battles and Leaders of the Civil War published in 1887-1888. (see Johnson below) (Electronic copy at eHistory. Copy at MT)
- Bradley, Chester
Dale.
President Lincoln's Campaign
Against the Merrimac.
Springfield, Ill. 1958. "Reprinted from the Journal of the
Illinois State Historical Society, Spring 1958, vol. LI, no. 1."
(Copy at NPL, WMVa)
- Brent, Martha Buxton
Porter.
Memoirs.
Notations by E. Griffith Dodson.
Wakefield, Va., 1934. 54pp (Copy at
NPL)
A relative of John L. Porter, the constructor of
the Virginia.
- Broadwater, John
D.
"Ironclad at Hampton
Roads"
in The Virginia Calvalcade, Winter 1984.
- Brock, R. A. (Robert
Alonzo) [editor].
Gen. Robert Edward Lee; Soldier,
Citizen, and Christian Patriot .
Richmond, Va., B. F. Johnson publishing co. 1897. 586 pp.
In appendix: 'The services of the "Virginia"
("Merrimac"),' by C. A. R. Jones (Copy at LoV, UVA, Wayne,
UNC)
- Brooke, George M.,
Jr.
Ironclads and Big Guns of the Confederacy
The Journal and Letters of John M. Brooke.
University of South Carolina Press. Columbia, South Carolina. 2002. 257pp. (Copy at MT)
- Brooke, George M.,
Jr.
John M. Brooke; Naval Scientist
and Educator.
University Press of Virginia, Charlottesville, 1980. 372pp. (Copy at MT)
- Brooke, St. George
Tucker.
"The Merrimac-Monitor
Battle."
Transallegheny Historical Magazine. Vol. 2, no. 1 (Oct.
1902), pp 30-42.
(Copy at UVA. Also in the papers of Harold Nan B.
at UVA.)
- Burnett, Constance
Buel.
Captain John Ericsson, Father of
the "Monitor".
Vanguard, 1960. 255 p. (Copy at Houston Public
Library)
- Bushnell, Samuel
C.
The Story of the Monitor and the
Merrimac.
in Maryland addresses and papers. New Haven(?), 1924(?).
12pp. (Copy at Mich. State Univ., UI-Urbana,
UW-Madison, Duke)
- Bushnell, C. S.
(Cornelius Scranton)
The Story of the Monitor, The
Original United States Warship Monitor.
New Haven, 1899. See William Wells,
compiler.
- Butt, Marshall
Wingfield.
Norfolk Naval Shipyard,
Portsmouth, Virginia:
A Brief History.
Public Information Office. Portsmouth, Va. 1959. 28p.
Ships built, together with some notable vessels
rebuilt, converted or completed by the Norfolk Naval
Shipyard.
- Butts, Francis
Banister.
"My First Cruise at Sea and the Loss
of the Ironclad Monitor".
Personal narratives of the Battles of the Rebellion, being
papers read before the Rhode Island Soldiers and Sailors
Historical Society ; no. 4. Providence, S.S. Rider, 1878. 23pp.(Electronic copy) 
- Butts, Francis
Banister.
"The Monitor and the
Merrimac".
Personal narratives of events in the War of the Rebellion,
being papers read before the Rhode Island Soldiers and Sailors
Historical Society ; fourth series, no. 6.
Providence, The Society, 1890. 51 p. (Copy at Duke, Electronic copy) 
Includes a list of officers and seaman of the
Monitor.
- Campbell, Mrs. A.
A.
"The First Fight of
Ironclads"
in
Confederate Veteran V XXIX, 1921. pp 290-291.
- Campbell,
R. Thomas.
Gray Thunder: Exploits of the
Confederate States Navy.
Burd Street Press, Shippensburg, PA, 1996. 212pp
He presents a compelling story in the two chapters on the Virginia. See his other volumes in this series. (Copy at MT)
- Campbell, R. Thomas and Alan R. Flanders.
Confederate Phoenix: The CSS Virginia.
Burd Street Press, Shippensburg, PA, 2001. 272pp
(Copy at MT)
- Canfield, Eugene B.
Civil War Naval Ordnance
Naval History Division, Navy Department. 1969. 24pp
Contains drawings and gun statistics, including
some ranges. (Copy at MT)
- Canney,
Donald L.
The Old Steam Navy. Volume Two.
The Ironclads, 1842-1885.
Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, MD, 1993;4to, xvi, 167 pp.
(Copyright 1990-1991)
- Cannon, Le Grand
Bouton.
Recollections of the Iron Clads,
Monitor and Merrimack and Incidents of the
Fights.
Burlington, VT: Free Press Steam Book and Job Printing House,
1875. 10 pp. (Copy at UVA)
- Carter, Alden R.
Battle of the Ironclads : The
Monitor and the Merrimack.
New York : F. Watts, 1993. A First Book series.
Children's book. (Copy at NPL)
- Catton, Bruce.
The Civil
War.
The American Heritage Library. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1988.
382 pp.
- Chase, Salmon P.
Letter to General Burnside, May
11, 1862.
Salmon Portland Chase collection.
Letter describes the taking of Norfolk and the
scuttling of the Merrimack.
- Church, William
Conant.
"John Ericsson"
Scribner's Monthly. Vol. 17, Issue 6. April 1879.
- Church, William
Conant.
"John Ericsson, The Engineer - July 31, 1803 - March 8, 1889".
Scribner's Magazine. I: Vol. 7, Issue 2, February, 1890, pp. 169-187. II: Vol. 7, Issue 3, March, 1890, pp. 336-361.
- Church, William Conant.
The Life of John Ericsson.
Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1891.
- Combat
naval de Hampton-Roads (Etats-Unis) 8 et 9 mars,
1862.
Paris. Challamel sine. 1862. 14pp. Plate.
- Confederate States of
America.
Proceedings of a naval general
court-martial, in the case of Captain Josiah
Tattnall.
Richmond. Macfarlane & Fergusson, prs. 1862. (7) 90 (I) pp.
(Copy at Rice, MT)
- Confederate States of America. Congress
Journal of the Congress of the Confederate States of America. 1861-1865.
Washington: G. P. O., 1904-1905. 7v.
Online copy (searchable) at the Library of Congress.
- Confederate States of
America. Congress. House of Representatives.
A bill to distribute bounty,
granted as a reward to the officers and men serving on board of
the Virginia, Patrick Henry, Jamestown, Raleigh, Beaufort and
Teazer, for their gallantry and courage in the naval engagement
with the enemy's vessels in Hampton Roads, on the 8th and 9th of
March, 1862
Richmond. April 8,1863. Filmed from the holdings of the
Boston Athenaeum. Microfilm. New Haven, Conn. : Research
Publications, [1974]. On reel 6 of 143 microfilm reels ;
35 mm. (Confederate imprints, 1861-1865 ; reel 6, no. 325). 2pp.
(Copy at Rice, MT)
- Confederate States of
America. Congress. Senate.
A bill making an appropriation
for the erection of additional buildings at Drewry's Bluff for the
accommodation of acting midshipmen.
Richmond, 1864. Senate, no. 144. Senate, December 17, 1864
(Copy at LoV)
- Congdon, Don, Ed.
Combat: The Civil
War.
New Jersey: The Blue and Grey Press, 1967. 564 pp.
(Copy at VMI)
- Coski, John M.
Capital Navy; The Men, Ships and
Operations of the James River Squadron.
Savas Woodbury Publishes, Campbell, CA. 1996. 344pp.
(Copy at MT)
- Cracknell, W.H.
United States Navy Monitors of
the Civil War. Warship Profile 36
(Sept. 1973).
- Crockett, Albert S.,
editor
"Aboard the U.S.S.
Monitor"
[Louis N. Stodder] Civil War Times Illustrated,
January 1963, pp 31-36.
- Curtis, Alice Turner
A Yankee Girl at Hampton Roads
Penn Publishing Co., Pennsylvania. 1927. 2213pp. (Copy at Athenaeum)
Juvenile fiction.
- Curtis, Richard.
History of the Famous Battle
Between the Iron-Clad Merrimac, C.S.S., and the Iron-Clad Monitor
and the Cumberland and Congress of the U.S.
Navy,
March the 8th and 9th, 1862, as Seen by a Man at the
Gun
Norfolk, Va.: S. S. Turner and Sons, 1907.
17 pages of his account of the battle. Interesting descriptions from his viewpoint at a bow gun. (Copy at MoC, LoV.)
- Cussler, Clive
The Sea Hunters
New York : Simon & Schuster, 1996. 364 pp.
Also published by Pocket Books, NY, in 1997. Part 3 has a fictionalized account of the batttle in Chapter 1 and then discuses the wrecks and artifacts in Chapters 3 and 4. (Copy at MT)
- Dabney,
T. G.
"The Virginia
Victorious"
in Confederate Veteran V. XXXI, 1923. pp 394, 398.
- Daily
Advertiser.
Daily Advertiser Extra!
:
Sunday, May 11 - 1 p.m. : capture of Norfolk, Portsmouth, and
the navy yards ... : later the Merrimack destroyed ... : latest
2:30 p.m. flight of the rebels toward Richmond ...
Broadside. May 11, 1862. (Copy at
LoV).
- Daly, Robert Welter.
How the Merrimac
Won.
Thomas Y. Crowell Company. New York. 1957. 211pp
(Copy at LoV, VMI,
NPL, VPI, UVA, NCSU,
MT)
- Damaree, Albert
L.
"Our Navy's Worst Headache: The
Merrimack."
USNIP 88, March 1962, pp. 130-32.
- D'Angelo, Schoenewaldt
Associates.
U.S.S. Monitor Preliminary
Recovery Study: Preliminary Engineering
Feasibility.
North Carolina Division of Archives and History, Underwater
Archaeology Branch. Kure Beach, N.C. 1981. 60pp.
- Davis,
William C.
Duel Between the First
Ironclads.
Louisiana State University Press. Baton Rouge, Louisiana. (and by
Doubleday. Garden City, NJ) 1975. 201pp. Also reprinted as a
paperback in 1981, 1994 (Stackpole Books. Mechanicsburg, PA).
Excellently researched book with detailed
information about the sources. (Copy at LoV, NCSU. MT; 1981, 1994 copies at MT)
- Dawson, Francis W.
Reminiscences of Confederate Service; 1861-1865.
Bell I Wiley, editor. Louisiana State University Press. Baton Rouge, Lousiana. 1980. 214pp. Originally published by The News and Courier Book Presses, Charleston, S.C., 1882.
Although Dawson became a CSA Captain, he began the war in the Navy. In Chapter VIII he covers the April trip of the Virginia and the preparations to take the Monitor while he was on the Beaufort. (Copy at MT)
- DeKay, James
Tertius.
Monitor: The Story of the
Revolutionary Ship and the Man whose Invention Changed the Course
of History.
Walker. New York, 1997. 247pp. (Copy at MT)
- Delfs, Rainer.
Monitor und Merrimac
:
das erste Gefecht zwischen gepanzerten Kriegsschiffen bei
Hampton Roads am 8. und 9. Marz 1862
Verlag fur Amerikanistik, Wyk auf Fohr, West-Germany : 1991. 64pp.
(Copy at UW-Madison)
- Delgado, James P.
"A Symbol of American
Ingenuity"
Assessing the Significance of U.S.S. Monitor
Historical Context Study for the Civil War Ironclad Warship
U.S.S. Monitor.
National Park Service. Washington, D.C. 1988. 58pp.
- Devens, Richard Miller
Our First Century:
being a popular descriptive portraiture of the one hundred great and memorable events of perpetual interest in the history of our country, political, military, mechanical, social, scientific and commercial: embracing also delineations of all the great historic characters celebrated in the annals of the republic: men of heroism, statesmanship, genius, oratory, adventure and philanthropy.
C. A. Nichols & Co., Springfield, Mass. 1876. 1007pp.
Chapter XCII: "Extraordinary Combat Between the Iron-Clads Merrimac and Monitor, in Hampton Roads.--1862." pp 789-797 (Online copy at Making of America at UMich)
This article appears to have been written entirely from third- or fourth-hand accounts as it is inexcusably full of inaccuracies. There are some interesting "facts" but one cannot accept them as factual amongst the errors.
- Ditzel, Paul C.
Quantrill, the Civil War's
Wildest Killer :
and Other True Adventure Stories of the Civil War
FBH Publishers, New Albany, IN : 1991. 111pp
True adventure stories from the Civil War series.
Chapter: "An inside look at the Monitor and the Merrimac" (Copy at
UW-Madison)
- Divine, David
(pseudonym of Arthur Durham Divine).
Thunder on the
Chesapeake
.
New York, Macmillan, 1961. 399 pp. (Copy at LoV,
NPL)
Fiction.
- Donald, David, editor
Inside Lincoln's Cabinet
The Civil War Diaries of Salmon P. Chase
Longmans, Green and Co., New York. 1954. 341pp.
Chapter 2 (pp 74-86) contain letters about the events of early May leading to the capture of Norfolk and the destruction of the Virginia
. (Copy at MT)
- Donnelly, Ralph
W.
The History of the Confederate
States Marine Corps
.
1976. Published by the Author, Washington, D.C.
(Copy at HRNM)
- Donovan, Frank
Robert.
The
Ironclads
.
Illustrated by Frank Kramer. A Wonderful World Book.
Barnes. New York. 1961. 125pp.
- Donovan, Frank
Robert.
Ironclads of the Civil
War
.
American Heritage Junior Library.
New York, American Heritage Pub. Co. 1964. 153pp.
(Copy at NPL, VPI, UVA)
- Dorr, Ebenezer P.
A Brief Sketch of the First
Monitor and its Inventor:
a paper read before the Buffalo historical society, January 5,
1874.
Matthews & Warren, Buffalo, 1874. 52pp. (Copy
at Mich. State Univ., UW-Madison)
- Draper, John William, MD, LLD
History of the American Civil War
Harper & Bros., New York. 3 Vol. 1867-1870.
Vol. II, Chapter LVI: "The Battle of the Iron Ships". pp 418-426. Inaccurate details of the battle. Does list ordnance expended by Minnesota and Monitor. Online copy at the Making of America at the Univ. of Michigan.
- Dudley, William S.
Going South: U.S. Navy Officer
Resignations & Dismissals on the Eve of the Civil
War.
Naval Historical Foundation Publication, Series 2, No. 27.
Washington: Naval Historical Foundation, 1981. 55 pp.
- Durkin,
Joseph T., S.J.
Confederate Navy Chief: Stephen
R. Mallory.
Classics in Maritime History series. University of South Carolina Press. South Carolina. 1987. Originally copyright 1954 by the University of North Carolina Press. 446pp. (1987 Copy at MT)
- Duyckinck, Evert Augustus
National History of the War for the Union, Civil, Military, and Naval
Founded on official and other authentic documents
Johnson, Fry and Company, New York. 3 volumes. 1861
Volume 2, Chapter LVII: "The Merrimac and Monitor, March 8th and 9th, 1862." p 296-312. Very good detail. Online copy at the Making of America, Univ. of Michigan. Yes, the copyright is listed as 1861 even though it covers events of 1862.
- Eisenschiml,
Otto, and Newman, Ralph.
The Civil War: An American Iliad
as Told by Those Who Lived It.
(Konecky & Konecky Civil War Library) New York: Bobbs Merrill
Co., 1966. 719 pp.
- Eliasson, Erik.
Captain John Ericsson in New
York
John Ericsson Society, New York. 1988. 104pp.
(Copy at UMinn, UW-Madison)
- Ericsson, John.
Contributions to the Centennial
Exhibition .
The Nation: New York. 1876. 577pp. (Copy at UMinn,
UW-Madison, UNC)
- Evans, Gen. Clement A.
Confederate Military History
New York, Thomas Yoseloff. 1899.. Reprinted by A. S. Barnes and Co., Inc. 1962. (Copy at WMVa) 
Volume XII, Chapter VI, written by Captain William Harwar Parker, covers the Hampton Roads area from March to May 1862.
- Fisher,
K.J.
"Titanic Coastal
Clash."
America's Civil War. 2, May 1989. pp. 34-40.
- Fiveash, Joseph
Gardner.
Virginia-(Merrimac) Monitor
Engagement and a Complete History of the Operations of These Two
Historic Vessels in Hampton Roads and Adjacent
Waters.
C.S.S. Virginia, March 8-May 11, 1862, U.S.S. Monitor, March 9
[1862]-January 2d 1863.
Norfolk, Va., Fiveash Pub. Corp. 1907. 29 p (Copy
at LoV, NPL, Wayne, Duke. Original at UVA.)
Perhaps more in the Fiveash family, Papers,
1906-1908, Accession #38-121, Special Collections Dept.,
University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.
- Flanders, Alan
B.
The Merrimac. The Story of the
Conversion of the U.S.S. Merrimac into the Confederate Ironclad
Warship, C.S.S. Virginia.
(No publisher listed. Outgrowth of his Master's Thesis.) 1982.
Excellent detail on the construction of the
Virginia. Flanders often has
articles on the Virginia in the Virginian-Pilot. (Copy at NPL, UW-Madison, Duke, MT) (Available at PNSM)
- Flanders, Alan
B.
John L. Porter
Naval Constructor of Destiny.
White Stone, VA: Brandylane
Publishers. 2000. 65pp.
(Copy at MT) (Available at PNSM)
- Flanders, Alan B.
and Captain Neale O. Westfall, editors
Memoirs of E. A. Jack
Steam Engineer, CSS
Virginia.
White Stone, VA: Brandylane
Publishers. 1998. 65pp.
(Copy at MT) (Available at PNSM)
- Flake, Elijah
Wilson.
Battle Between the Merrimac and
the Monitor.
Polkton, NC. 1914. 12pp.
- Fuller, Richard F.
"Merrimac and
Monitor"
in Chaplain Fuller: being a life sketch of a New England clergyman and army chaplain. Boston. 1863. pp 233-245.
He was a member of the 16th Massachusetts. [Copy at MT]
- Fox, Gustavus V.
Confidential Correspondence of
Gustavus V. Fox, Assistant Secretary of the Navy,
1861-1865.
Edited by Robert M. Thompson and Richard Wainwright. New York:
Naval History Society, 1918-19. 2 vols.
- Franklin, S. R., Rear-Admiral
Memories of a Rear-Admiral
Who has Served for More than Half a Century in the Navy of the United States
Harper & Brothers Publishers. New York. 1898. 
Aboard the USS Roanoke on March 8, 1862. [Copy at MT]
- Frazer, Chelsea Curtis
Boys' Book of Sea Fights
NY. Thomas Y. Crowell. 1920.
- Gentile,
Gary
Ironclad legacy : battles of the USS Monitor
Philadelphia, PA. G. Gentile Productions, 1993. 280 p
(Copy at UNC)
- Georgiady, Nicholas
Peter, and Louis
G. Romano
The Ironclads (the Monitor and
the Merrimac)
Independents Pub. Co., Milwaukee, 1966.
Juvenile literature. Events in American History
series. (Copy at Wayne State Univ. UW-Madison)
- Gielow, Martha
Sawyer.
Old Plantation
Days.
New York : R.H. Russell, 1902. 183pp. (Copy at
VPI, Duke)
Chapter: "A brief sketch of Mammy Joe and her
account of the sinking of the Merrimac"
- Gilman, William
Henry
Letters Written
Home:
While Acting as Secretary to Commodore John C. Long, Commander
of the U.S. Steam Frigate Merrimac on a Voyage to the South
American Coast and the Islands of the South Pacific, in the years
1857-1858.
Exeter, NH. 1911. 96pp. (Copy at SMU)
- Geoffroy,
William
Facts Connected with the Cruise
of the United States Steam Frigate Merrimac,
commanded by R. B. Hitchcock, Commander,
Late the Flag Ship of the Pacific Squadron, During the Years 1857,
1858, 1859 & 1860.
Kelly, Hedian & Piet. Baltimore. 1960. 40pp 1976 (Copy at
Rice)
- Glazier, Willard, Captain
Battles for the Union;
comprising descriptions of many of the most stubbornly contested battles in the war of the great rebellion, together with incidents and reminiscences of the camp, the march and the skirmish line. Embracing a record of the privations, herois deeds, and glorious triumphs of th soldiers of the republic.
Hartford, Conn., Dustin, Gilman & Co., 1875. 407pp.
Chapter VIII: "Merrimac and Monitor" pp. 80-93. Another general Civil War history that is full of errors.
- Goldkuhl, Carola.
Varfor drojer Monitor? :;
berattelsen om John Ericsson
Ehlins, Stockholm. 1950. 157pp. (Copy at
UMinn)
Fiction.
- Greene, Jack and Allessandro Massaignani
Ironclads at War
The Origin and Development of the Armored Warship, 1854-1891.
Combined Publishing. Conshohocken, Pennsylvania. 1998.
Some 50 pages on the ships and battle. Says according to MaClay, the grounding of the Minnesota was due to the pilot who sided with the Confederacy. Describes a circling technique by Worden. Seems to be reasonably well researched but only a few sources listed.
- Greene, S. Dana.
"The Fight Between the Monitor and
the Merrimac."
United Service Vol 12. Apr 1885. pp. 448-54
- Greene, Samuel
Dana.
An Eye-Witness Account of the
Battle Between the U.S.S. Monitor and the C.S.S. Virginia
(Formerly U.S.S. Merrimack) on March 9th,
1862.
Washington : Naval Historical Foundation, 1962? 6 pp. A Naval
Historical Foundation publication (Copy at WMVa. UVA) 
- Greene, Samuel
Dana.
The "Monitor" at Sea and in
Battle.
G. Banta Publishing Co., Menasha, Wis. 1923. (Copy at Harvard) 
- Greene, Samuel
Dana.
"I Fired the First Gun and Thus
Commenced the Great Battle."
American Heritage 8. Jun 1957. pp. 10-13 & 102-105.
- Gregory, James G.
The Boy's Picture Book of
Boats
James G. Gregory. 46 Walker St. New York. 1862-1864(?). 24pp.
Describes the battle between the Merrimac and
Monitor on page 16.
- Guernsey, Alfred H.
and Alden, Henry M.
Harper's Pictorial History of the
Civil War: Contemporary Accounts and Illustrations of the Most
Important Magazine of the Time, with 1,000 Scenes, Maps, Plans,
and Portraits.
New York, Gramercy Books, 1866 (originally published). Random
House Edition. 836 pp. (Copy at VMI)
- Gurley, E. W.
The Story of our Mess and Other
Stories of the War
Told by Soldiers and Sailors.
New York : John W. Lovell, 1887?. 164pp. (Copy at
UVA)
- Guttman, Jon
"Rebel Stand at Drewry's
Bluff"
America's Civil War Magazine. Leesburg, Va. Vol 10. No. 5.
Nov. 1997.
(Copy at MT)
- Guttman, Jon
"Rebel's Stand at Drewry's Bluff"
America's Civil War Magazine. Leesburg, Va. Jan. 2003.
Article on the web at America's Civil War.
- Hammar,
Hugo.
John Ericssons Monitor och
drabbningen pa Hampton Roads.
H. Geber, Stockholm :1937. 61pp (Copy at
UMinn)
- Harbeck, Charles
T.
A Contribution to the Bibliography
of the History of the United States Navy.
The Riverside Press, Cambridge. 1906. (Copy at
Rice)
- Headley, J. T.
Farragut and our Naval Commanders
E. B. Treat & Company. 1867. 609pp
Chapter on Worden is pp 512-522. Headley repeats the grossest of inaccurate reports of the Monitor-Virginia battle. (Online at UMich, Copy at MT).
- Stan. V. Henkels
(Firm)
Nuggets of American history
:
An Unusual Collection of Pamphlets Relating to the Civil War,
Confederate States, Abraham Lincoln, General R.E. Lee, Monitor and
Merrimac fight, Maryland, Indiana, Pennsylvania, Ohio,
Philadelphia, Oregon, Revolutionary War, War of 1812, etc., a copy
of Mason's "Pequot War," Boston, 1736 (1st edition) ... to be sold
Tuesday afternoon, April 20, 1915 ...
Philadelphia, PA : S.V. Henkels, 1915. 48pp. (Copy
at LoV)
- Hertz, Emanuel.
Abraham Lincoln, his Inventive
Mind.
1930. 15pp (Copy at UW-Madison)
- Hewitt, John H.
War: A Poem, with Copious Notes, Founded on the Revolution of 1861-62, (Up to the Battles before Richmond, Inclusive).
West and Johnston, Richmond, 1862. 85pp
(Electronic
copy at UNC-CH).
See page
16 for description of the destruction
of the USS Merrimack and page
53 for the battle with the Cumberland,
Congress, Monitor.
- Hill, Dina B.
(editor).
Analysis and Preservation of Hull
Plate Samples from the Monitor.
The Division, Raleigh, N.C. : 1981.114pp. U.S.S. Monitor technical
report series (Copy at UW-Madison)
- Hill, Frederic
Stanhope.
Twenty-six Historic
Ships;
The Story of Certain Famous Vessels of War and of their
Successors in the Navies of the United States and of the
Confederate States of America from 1775 to 1902.
G. P. Putnam's Sons. New York and London. 1902. 515pp.
- Hoehling,
A. A.
Thunder at Hampton
Roads.
Prentice-Hall. Englewood Cliffs, NJ 1976 (Reprinted by De Capo
Press. New York. 1993).
Full of references but written as though it were a
Federal propaganda piece from 1862. Reports erroneous quotes as
though they were fact. (Copy at NCSU,
MT)
- Holley, Alexander L.
"Iron-Clad Ships and Heavy Ordnance"
Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 11, Issue 63, pp. 85-95. Atlantic Monthly Co. Boston. January 1863
- Hollyday, Lamar.
"The Virginia and the
Monitor"
in Confederate Veteran. V. XXX, 1922. p 380-382.
- Hopkins, Garland
Evans.
The First Battle of Modern Naval
History.
Richmond, Va., The House of Dietz, 1943. 34pp.
(Copy at LoV, WMVa, UVA, UNC)
- Hubinger, Bert
"Can We Ever Raise the
Monitor?"
In Civil War Times Illustrated, June, 1997 pp 38-48.
- Johnson,
R.U. and C.C. Buel.
Battles and Leaders of the Civil
War.
The Century Co., The De Vinne Press. New York, 1887.
Later reprinted by Castle, a division of Book Sales, Inc.,
Secaucus, NJ, 1991(?).
Also, selections extracted into Battles and Leaders of the Civil
War, Selected and edited by Ned Bradford, Meridian, Penguin Group,
New York, 1989. (Copyright 1956 by Ned Bradford.)
This series was published in 1887-1888 of articles
presented in Century Magazine. The articles about the Virginia and
Monitor are in the first volume (of four), entitled "The Opening
Battles". (1887 Copy at VMI; 1991 Copy at MT. Electronic copy at eHistory)
- Jones, Charles Colcock,
assisted by J.R.F. Tattnall (the Commodore's son).
The Life and Services of
Commodore Josiah Tattnall.
Savannah, Ga. Morning News Steam Printing House. 1878. 255pp.
(Copy at VMI)
- Jones, Robert A.
"Aftermath of an
Ironclad"
in Civil War Times Illustrated. Vol. 1, October 1972, pp
21-26.
- Jones, Thomas
Catesby.
The Iron-Clad
Virginia.
in The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography..
Vol. XLIX No 4, October 1941. pp 297-303. Virginia
Historical Society. Richmond, Virginia. (Copy at
MT)
- Jones, Thomas
Catesby.
"The Merrimack and Her Big
Guns"
in The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography.
Vol. L No 1, January 1942. pp 13-37. Virginia Historical Society.
Richmond, Virginia. (Copy at MT)
- Jones, Virgil C.
The Civil War at
Sea.
New York: Holt & Reinhart, 1960-62. 3 vols. (Specifically, Vol
1, "The Blockaders")
- Keeler,
William Frederick.
Aboard the USS Monitor:
1862;
the letters of Acting Paymaster William Frederick Keeler, U.S.
Navy, to his wife, Anna.
Edited by Robert W. Daly. Annapolis, U.S. Naval Institute 1964. 278pp. (Copy at MT, LoV, VMI, NPL, VPI,NCSU) 
- Keeler, William
Frederick
The Unpublished Private Log of
the USS Monitor, 1862-1865.
(Microform) University Microfilms. Ann Arbor, Mich. 1960.
Photocopy of holograph letters, Jan 12, 1862-Nov.
12, 1865.
- Kell, John McIntosh
Recollections of a Naval Life
Including the Cruises of the Confederate States Steamers "Sumter"
and "Alabama",
The Neale Company, Washington, 1900. 307pp.
(Electronic
copy at UNC-NC)
Contains letter
by Robert D. Minor of March 1862
regarding the battles of the Virginia.
- Kelland, Clarence
Budington.
The Monitor
Affair.
Popular Library, New York: 1960. 160pp.
Fiction. (Copy at UMinn)
- Kennon, Beverley.
Ralph in Action, or, 'Tween Decks
on the Merrimac.
Street & Smith, New York: 1896. 32pp
Children's Literature. (Copy at UMinn)
- Kettell, Thomas Prentice.
History of the Great Rebellion,
from its commencement to its close, giving an account of its origin, the secession of the southern states, and the formation of the Confederate government, the concentration of the military and financial resources of the federal government ... together with sketches of the lives of all the eminent statesmen and military and naval commanders, with a full and complete index. From official sources
L.Stebbins, F. A. Howe, Hartford and Cincinnati. 1866. 778pp.
Chapter XX: pp. 245-250. Has detail on the land events at Hampton Roads, but the naval details are inaccurate. See the electronic copy at Making of America at the Univ. of Michigan.
- Kismaric, Carole.
Duel of the
Ironclads.
New York, Time-Life Books. Spotlight on History series.1969. 51
pp. (Copy at NPL)
- La
Bree, Benjamin (editor)
The Confederate soldier in the
Civil War, 1861-1865.
Prefaced by a eulogy by Major-General Fitzhugh Lee ... The
foundation and formation of the Confederacy and the secession of
the Southern States and prominent parts taken by Hon. Jefferson
Davis ... Hon. Alexander H. Stephens ... and others. Campaigns,
battles, sieges, charges, skirmishes, etc. By General Robert E.
Lee, Generals Albert Sidney Johnston ... and others. The
Confederate States Navy, from its first organization to the end of
the war. Naval engagements, blockade running, operations of
cruisers, torpedo service, etc. By Admiral Franklin Buchanan ...
Rear Admiral Raphael Semmes ... etc.
Louisville, Ky., The Prentice Press (The Courier-Journal Job
Printing Co.) 1897. (First published 1895. Reprinted by Pageant
Books in Paterson, N.J., in 1959) 480pp
Has a chapter "Battle between the Virginia and the Monitor"
- Lamb, Martha J.
"John Ericcson, the Builder of the
Monitor, 1803-1889."
Magazine of American History 25. January 1891. pp.
1-17
- Latham, Jean Lee.
Man of the Monitor; The Story of
John Ericsson.
New York, Harper 1962 231 pp.
Juvenile literature. (Copy at NPL,
UMich)
- Lauer, Conrad
Newton.
John Ericsson, engineer,
1803-1889.
A Newcomen publication. Glenloch, Pa. 1939.
10pp. (Copy at UNC)
- Lecomte, Ferdinand
The war in the United States. Report to the Swiss military department; proceded by a discourse to the Federal military society assembled at Berne, Aug. 18, 1862.
Translated from the French. De la guerre actuelle des États-Unis d'Amérique. New York, D. Van Nostrand, 1863. 148pp. (Online copy at UMich)
- Le Fancheur, L.
J.
Fight between the "Merrimac" and
the "Monitor."
Norfolk. M. Belfor. [1890] 9pp.
- Lewis, Charles Lee.
Admiral Franklin Buchanan, Fearless Man of Action.
The Norman, Remington Company. Baltimore. 1929. 285pp.
- Lewis, Charles
Lee.
"Admiral Franklin
Buchanan"
in Confederate Veteran V. XXXVII, 1929. pp 414-419.
- Littleton, William
Graham.
The Cumberland, the Monitor and
the Virginia (Popularly Called the
Merrimac)
being an address delivered at the meeting of the Pennsylvania
Commandery, Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United
States, held May 10, 1933, at the Union League of
Philadelphia.
Penn. MOLLUS, Philadelphia, 1933. 19 p. (Copy at
LoV)
- Lockard, William
Abram II.
The C. S. S. Virginia
(Merrimack); or, Billy and the Ironclad.
New York, Exposition Press 1972. 175 pp. (Copy at
LoV, NPL)
Juvenile fiction.
- Love, Robert W., Jr.
History of the U. S. Navy. V. 1,
1775-1941.
Stackpole Books, Harrisburg, PA. 1992. 731pp. (Copy at
VMI,
MT)
- Luce, Stephen
Bleecker.
The Story of the
Monitor.
Boston?. 1902?. pp 127-154. Also published in the Papers of the
Military Historical Society of Massachusetts, vol. XII. (Boston:
Published for the Society by Griffith-Stallings Press, 1902.)
- Luraghi, Raimondo.
A History of the Confederate
Navy.
Naval Institute Press. Annapolis, Maryland. 1996.
(Copy at VMI,
MT)
- Mabry, W.
S.
Brief Sketch of the Career of
Catesby ap Roger Jones.
Privately published, Selma, AL, January, 1912. 55pp
Jones lived in the Mabry home after the war until
his death. Mabry had access to him and his papers. This can be
found at most libraries that have a collection on the
Virginia. Mabry
Tyson has an electronic
version as well. (Copy at LoV,
VMI,UNC)
- MacBride, Robert.
Civil War Ironclads: The Dawn of
Naval Armor.
Philadelphia, Chilton Books. 1962. 185 pp (Copy at
NPL, VPI)
- Macartney, Clarence Edward.
Mr Lincoln's Admirals.
New York, Funk & Wagnalls Co. 1956. (Copy at WMVa, MT)
See the chapter on Worden, pp 172-199.
- MacCord, Charles W., Sc.D.
"Ericsson and his 'Monitor'"
The North American Review. Vol. 149, Issue 395. Univ. of Northern Iowa. Cedar Falls, Iowa. October 1889. pp. 460-472.
A look at Ericsson, by a former Chief Draughtsman. He seems to know the man and not just the inventions.
- Marshall, Ian H.
Ironclads and
Paddlers.
Howell Press. Charlottesville, VA. 1993. 108pp.
- Martin, Charles,
USN.
Personal Reminiscences of the
Monitor and Merrimac Engagement, and Destruction of the Congress
and Cumberland.
A paper read before the Commandery of New York, Military Order,
Loyal Legion, United States, May 5, 1886.
New York: MacGowan & Slipper, Printers. 1886. 8pp
(Copy at UVA, MT) . Apparently reprinted by
Broadfoot, Wilmington, NC:1992. pp. 1-16.
- The Mariners' Museum; Marvel, William, editor.
The Monitor Chronicles
One Sailor's Account.. Today's Campaign to Recover the Civil War Wreck.
Simon & Schuster. New York, NY. 2000. 272pp.
Historical text largely based on and including Civil War letters written by George Geer. (Copy at MT)
- Martin, Sharron, Historian General of the UDC
"Confederate Iron: Birth of the Armored Fleet"
UDC Magazine, August 1999. pp 8-9.
- Mason, F. van Wyck
(Francis van Wyck).
Armored Giants : A Novel of the
Civil War.
Boston : Little, Brown, 1980. 339 pp. (Copy at
NPL, MT)
- McCordock, Robert
Stanley.
The Yankee Cheese
Box.
Philadelphia, Dorrance and company. 1938. 470 pp.
(Copy at LoV, NPL, WMVa, UVA)
- McMaster, G.
Trotten.
"A Little Unwritten History of the
Original U.S.S. Monitor."
USNIP 27. December 1901. pp. 725-32
- Melander,
Richard.
Sjoluft :;
berattelser.
P.A. Norstedt, Stockholm : 1897. 172pp.
Chapter: "Under stjarnbaneret: Merrimac och
Monitor." (Copy at UMinn)
- Melton, Maurice.
The Confederate
Ironclads.
South Brunswick, NJ. T. Yoseloff. 1968. 319 pp.
(Copy at NPL, Houston Public Library)
- The Merrimac and Monitor
Panorama Company.
The Merrimac and Monitor Naval
Engagement Illustated or
A Comprehensive Sketch of the
Merrimac and Monitor Naval Battle Giving an Accurate Account of
the Most Important Naval Engagement in the Annals of
War.
New York, The Merrimac and Monitor Panorama Company, 1886.
15pp (Copy at LoV, UVA, Wayne, MT)
- Middleton, Allecia
Hopton.
Life in Carolina and New England
during the nineteenth century, as illustrated by reminiscences and
letters of the Middleton family of Charleston, South Carolina, and
of the DeWolf family of Bristol, Rhode
Island.
Bristol, Rhode Island. 1929. 233pp.
Admiral Marston on the "Monitor" and the
"Merrimac".
- Miller, Edward M.
USS Monitor: The Ship that
Launched a Modern Navy.
Leeward Publications, Annapolis, 1978. 125 pp.
(Copy at UMich, Wayne, UW-Madison,
UNC)
- Mindell, David A.
War, Technology, and Experience aboard the USS Monitor
Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 2000. 187pp.
- Moehring, Eugene P.,
and Keylin, Arleen, Eds.
The Civil War Extra: From the
Pages of The Charleston Mercuy & The New York
Times.
New York: Arno Press, 1975. 310 pp.
Contains facsimilies of the front pages of these
papers reporting the March 9th battle. (Copy at VMI)
- Mokin, Arthur.
Ironclad : the Monitor and the
Merrimack.
Novato, CA : Presidio, 1991. 274 p.
Fiction. See the author's site. (Copy at LoV, UVA, NCSU,
MT)
- Morgan, James Morris.
Recollections of a Rebel
Reefer.
Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston and New York, 1917. 491p.
(Electronic
version at UNC-CH)
A description of the battle at Drewry's Bluff
begins on page 80.
- Monitor
Conference.
The Monitor, Its Meaning and
Future :
papers from a national conference, Raleigh, North Carolina,
April 2-4, 1978.
Preservation Press, Washington. 1978. 132pp. (Copy
at UW-Madison, NCSU)
- Mooney, James L.
(editor).
Dictionary of American Naval
Fighting Ships.
Naval Historical Center, Department of the Navy, Washington, DC.,
1969.
I only have access to an electronic version of DANFS here
and here/here.
This document provides details on every ship of both the Union and
Confederate Navies.
- Moore, Frank.
The Rebellion Record: A Diary of
American Events.
Vol. 4. Jan 62 - May 62. New York: G.P. Putnam, 1862. viii+536+106+xv pp. (Copy at VMI,
MT)
- Moore, Frank, editor.
"The Fight in Hampton Roads"
in Anecdotes, Poetry, and Incidents of the War: North and South. 1860-1865
New York, Publication office, Bible house, J. Porteus, agent, 1867. 560 pp
pp. 404-407.
- Morris, Gouverneur.
The Spread Eagle,; and Other
Stories.
C. Scribner's Sons, New York, 1910. 357pp.
Chapter: "The 'Monitor' and the 'Merrimac.'" (Copy
at Wayne)
- Morris, Robert.
Three Hundred Thousand
More.
King and Baird, Printers. Philadelphia. 186-.
Patriotic poetry. "Monitor and
Merrimac"
- Muga, Bruce J. (Bruce
Jennings)
Engineering investigation, U.S.S.
Monitor :
prepared for Underwater Archaeology Branch, Division of
Archives and History, Department of Cultural Resources, State of
North Carolina .
U.S. Dept. of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration, Office of Coastal Zone Management. Washington,
D.C. ; Dept. of Cultural Resources. Raleigh, N.C. 1982 160pp
- Names,
Larry D.
Man-of-War.
Ironclads Series. The Hearst Corporation. (Avon Books also?). New
York. 1995. 374pp.
Historical fiction.
- National Ocean Survey.
Office of Coastal Zone Management.
Monitor Marine Sanctuary
:
an archaeological and engineering assessment : operations
manual.
Sponsored by Office of Coastal Zone Management, National
Oceanic
and Atmospheric Administration in cooperation with Harbor
Branch Foundation, Incorporated and North Carolina Department of
Cultural Resources.
Dept. of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration, Office of Coastal Zone Management . Washington.
1979. 182pp.
-
Naval
History (August 1996)
United States Naval
Institute.
U.S. Naval Institute. Annapolis, MD. August, 1996.
Magazine (subject Ironclads- early
warships)
- Newton, John G.
"How We Found the 'Monitor'"
in National Geographic. Washington. 1975. N.G.S. Volume 147, No. 1, January 1975. pp 48-61.
- Newton, Virginius.
The Confederate States Ram
Merrimac or Virginia:
The History of her Plan and Construction, and her Engagements
with the United States Frigate Monitor.
Hermitage Press, Richmond. 1907. 34pp. (Copy at LoV,
VMI, UVA, UTA, SMU)
I believe this is the same as the 1892 SHSP article.
- Newton, Virginius.
"The Ram Merrimac"
Southern
Historical Society Papers, Vol XX, 1892, pp 1-26.
- Norris, William
The Story of the Confederate
States' Ship "Virginia" (Once Merrimac):
Her Victory Over the Monitor; Born March 7th, Died May 10th,
1862.
John B. Piet, Baltimore. 1879 29pp. Also in Southern Historical
Society Papers, Number III, Whole Number XLI, Sept. 1916, pp 204-233.
- O'Neil,
Charles
Engagement between the Cumberland
and Merrimack.
US Naval Institute. Annapolis. 1922.
- Our
Ironclad Ships.
W. Blackwood & Sons. Edinburgh. 1870.
(Copy at NYSL)
- Page,
Dave.
Ships Versus Shore: Civil War
Engagements Along Southern Shores and
Rivers.
Nashville, Tenn.: Rutledge Hill Press, 1994. 410 pp. (Copy at MT)
- Panamerican Consultants, Inc and
Atlantic Division, Naval Facilities Engineering Command.
Shes gonna ram! The death of
the U.S.S. Cumberland.
Brochure. No date. (Copy at HRNM)
- Parker, Foxhall A.
"The Monitor and
Merrimac."
USNIP 1 1874. pp. 155-62.
- Parker, William
Harwar.
Recollections of a Naval Officer,
1841-1865.
Charles Scribners Sons. New York. 1883. 403pp. Reprinted by the Naval Institute Press, Anapolis, Maryland,1985, in their Classics of Naval Literature series.
Parker was in command of the CSS Beaufort at the Battle of Hampton Roads which is covered on pp 251-305. (Copy at MT)
See the positive review in the Atlantic Monthly,Vol. 52, Issue 314, December 1883, pp. 835-839.
- Parsons, Iain
(Editor).
The Encyclopedia of sea warfare :
from the first ironclads to the present
day.
A Salamander book. Crowell. New York and Spring Books,
London.1975. 250 pp.
- Patterson, H. K.
W.
War Memories of Fort Monroe and
Vicinity.
Containing an account of the memorable battle between the "Merrimac" and "Monitor," the incarceration of Jefferson C. [sic] Davis, and other topics ...
Fort Monroe, Va., Pool & Deuschle, 1885. 102
pp. (Copy at LoV, UVA, Duke)
- Peterkin, Ernest
W.
Drawings of the U.S.S.
Monitor:
A Catalog and Technical Analysis.
US Dept. of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration, National Ocean Service. Washington, DC. North
Carolina Dept. of Cultural Resources, Raleigh, NC. 1985.
588p.
- Phillips, Dinwiddie
Brazier
"The Career of the Iron-Clad
Virginia, (formerly the Merrimac), Confederate States Navy,
March-May, 1862."
in Collection of the Virginia Historical Society. Virginia Historical Society. Richmond. New Series, V. 6 (1887) pp 193-231.
- Pizer, Vernon
Shortchanged by History:
America's Neglected Innovators.
Putnam. New York. 1979. 158pp.
Juvenile literature. Discusses James Buchanan Eads
who launched the first ironclad in American waters.
- Pollard, E. A.
The Lost
Cause:
a new southern history of the war of the Confederates:
comprising a full and authentic account of the rise and progress
of the late southern Confederacy--the campaigns, battles,
incidents, and adventures of the most gigantic struggle of the
world's history.
New York: Gramercy Books, 1994. Facsimile of the Original 1866 Edition. 852 pp.
"Naval Fight in Hampton Roads" pp 224-229. "Naval Engagement at Drewry's Bluff" p 270 (1866 Online copy at Making of America at UMich, copy at VMI)
Less detail on the battle than in his "Southern History" but includes more Union details, including casualties.
- Pollard, Edward Alfred
Southern History of the War. The First Year of the War
C. B. Richardson, New York. 1863. 368pp.
Reprinted from the Richmond Corrected Edition. See pages 268-274 at the Making of America electronic version.
- Post, Lydia Minturn, Mrs., ed.
Soldiers' Letters, from camps, battle-field and prison.
Published for the U.S. sanitary commission.
Bunce & Harrington, New York. 1865.

Includes Greene's March 14, 1862, letter to his parents.
- Porter, David D.
Naval History of the Civil
War.
New York: Sherman, 1886. 843 pp. (Copy at MT)
- Porter, John
Luke
C.S.S Virginia
(Merrimack)
Story of her Construction, Battles, etc.
n.p., n.d. 21pp.
- Porter,
John W, H.
A Record of Events in Norfolk
Co., Va., from April 19th, 1861, to May 10th, 1861, with a History
of the Soldiers and Sailors of Norfolk County, Norfolk City, and
Portsmouth Who Served in the Confederate States Army or
Navy.
Portsmouth, Va.: W. A. Fiske, 1892. Republished by Stonewall Camp,
Confederate Veterans, of Portsmouth, 1996. 366 p. (Index added, 47
pp.).
This accounting is by the son of the constructor
of the CSS Virginia. The Virginia
and the Battle of Hampton Roads are covered on pp. 327-366. Other biographical information is spread throughout. (1892 copy at LoV, VMI, NPL, VPI. UVA, Wayne; 1996 Copy at MT) (Electronic copy at LoC)
- Potter, E. B
Illustrated History of the United
States Navy
.
Galahad Books, New York. 1971. 287pp.
The Battle of Hampton Roads is covered on pages 77-83. (Copy at MT)
- Pratt, Fletcher.
The Monitor and the
Merrimac
.
Random House. New York. (Also E.M. Hale, Eau Claire, Wis).
1951.
A children's book. (Copy at LoV, NPL, VPI,
MT)
- Preston, Antony.
Battleships
.
Bison Books. Greenwich, Conn. 1982. 64pp.
Describes the different types of battleships used
in warfare including wooden and ironclad ships of the past and
modern carriers and cruisers.
- Project
Cheesebox, A Journey Into History:
A Research Manuscript
.
Department of History, United States Naval Academy. Annapolis.
1974. 3vol. 1083pp.
- Putnam, Sallie
Brock.
Richmond During the War: Four
Years of Personal Observation
.
Lincoln, Neb., University of Nebraska Press, 1996. 389 pp.
(Originally published in N. Y.: G. W. Carlton, 1867)
(1867 copy at VMI;
1996 Copy at MT)
- Quarstein, John V.
The Battle of the Ironclads.
The Civil War History Series. Acadia Publishing. Charleston, SC. 1999. 128pp. paper. (Copy at MT)
- Quarstein, John V.
C.S.S. Virginia, Mistress of Hampton Roads.
H. E. Howard, Inc., Appomatox, VA. 2000. 367pp. ISBN-1-56190-118-0.
G. Richard Hoffeditz Jr. and J. Michael Moore, Research Assistants
A unique feature of this volume is a small (typically one paragraph) biography of each of the crew! Very useful. Only 1000 copies printed (for 1st edition). (Copy at MT)
- Rae, Thomas W.
"The Little Monitor Saved Our Lives"
In American History Illustrated
. July 1966. 8pp.
I haven't seen this article, but he was a Union Navy Engineer in the Civil War.
- Rawson,
Edward Kirk.
Twenty Famous Naval Battles;
Salamis to Santiago
.
New York, Boston T. Y. Crowell & Co. 1899.
(Copy at VPI, Wayne)
- Reit, Seymour.
Ironclad! : A True Story of the
Civil War .
New York : Dodd, Mead, 1977. 92 pp.
Illustrated with old prints and drawings by the author.
Juvenile fiction. Presents the historic Civil War
battle between two ironclad ships, the Merrimac and the Monitor,
from the viewpoint of a youth serving aboard the Monitor. (Copy at
Wayne)
- Reaney, Henry.
"The Monitor and
Merrimac."
In War Papers (MOLLUS, MI, Vol. 2). Stone, Detroit. 1898. pp.
167-72.
- Reed, Rowena
Combined Operations in the Civil War
Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, MD. 1978. 468pp.
Gives the background for the military situation in the Peninsular Campaign. p. 138 notes the damage caused by the Virginia's 7" hollow shells on the Monitor and considers the effect of solid iron bolts. (Copy at MT)
- Roe, Louis A.
The Battle of the Ironclad
:
America's most memorable naval battle.
Cupples & Leon Coompany, Publishers, New York : 1942.
246pp.
Fiction.
- Rogers, James C. [compiler].
Fire-fight on the Chesapeake Bay,
March 8-9, 1862 : Virginia History.
Art by Julia Higginbotham. Richmond : Lyceum Publications, 1976.
39 pp.
"The Battle of Hampton Roads in the words of
participants. " (Copy at UVA)
- Rogers, William.
"The Loss of the
Monitor."
In War Papers (MOLLUS, ME, Vol. 3). Thurston, Portland, ME. 1908.
pp. 77-90.
- Rogers, William
Edgar.
The First Battle of the Iron
Clads as Seen by an Eye Witness:
printed from a talk by Colonel William E. Rogers to the Mount
Pleasant Citizens' Association, Washington, D.C., October,
1923.
Washington, DC. The Association, 1923 18 pp. (Copy at VPI, UVA, UW-Madison) 
- Roosevelt, Theodore,
et al.
Stories of the
Republic.
G. P. Putnam's Sons. New York, London. 1912. 397pp.
"The Duel Between the 'Monitor' and the
'Merrimac'" by W. J. Abbot.
- St.
John, Percy B., (Percy Bolingbroke).
On Board the "Merrimac," or, The
Adventures of a Boy Tar in the War of the
Rebellion.
F. Tousey, New York. 1883. 14pp.
Children's Literature (Copy at UMinn)
- St. Lifer, James
A.
Magnetometer Survey of the U.S.S.
Monitor Wreck Site.
MS Thesis under Robert E. Sheridan. University of Delaware.
Newark, Del. 1978. 233pp.
- St.
Nicholas
.
Civil War Stories, Retold from
St. Nicholas
.
New York, Century Co., 1911 (1905?). 201pp.
Historical stories retold from St. Nicholas
magazine. A.
Badeau: "The Merrimac and the Monitor." (Copy at
LoV, UVA)
- Sappey, Maureen
Dreams of Ships, Dreams of Julia: at sea with the Monitor and Merrimac, Virginia 1862
Shippensburg, Pa: White Mane Press, Young American Series, 1998. (Juvenile. Copy at MT)
- Scharf,
J. Thomas.
History of the Confederate States
Navy
from its organization to the surrender of its last vessel. Its
stupendous struggle with the great navy of the United States; the
engagements fought in the rivers and harbors of the South, and
upon the high seas; blockade-running, first use of iron-clads and
torpedoes, and privateer history
.
The Fairfax Press. New York. 1977. (Originally published in 1887 in New York by Rogers & Sherwood.)
Written by an officer of the CSN in 1887, this
book is replete with quotations directly from the official
records. Reprinted again in ca. 1996. A
must for anyone interested in the navies of the Civil War. (The
1977 reprint has his name as "Sharf" on the cover but "Scharf" on
the inside.] (1887 copy at VMI;
1977 Copy at MT)
- Schenkman, David
E.
Tokens & Medals Commemorating
the Battle between the Monitor and
Merrimac
.
Hampton : Virginia Numismatic Association [Berryville, Va,
Distributed by Virginia Book Co.], 1979 23 pp. Special
articles on the numismatics of the Commonwealth of Virginia
series. (Copy at LoV, UVA, UW-Madison, MT)
- Sears, Stephen W.
"Surrender to
Caution"
in Naval History
. February 1994. pp 32-39. United States
Naval Institute.
- Selfridge, Thomas
Oliver.
"The Merrimac and the Cumberland"
in The Cosmopolitan, A Monthly Illustrated
Magazine, Volume XV, The Cosmopolitan Press, NY, 1893, pp 176-184. (Copy at Stanford) 
- Selfridge, Thomas
Oliver.
Memoirs of Thomas O. Selfridge, Jr., Rear Admiral, U.S.N.
with an introduction by Captain Dudley W. Knox. New York & London, G.P. Putnam's sons, 1924. xii, 288 p. front. (port.) plates, maps (part fold.) 24cm. [Copy at LoC] 
Republished with an introduction by William N. Still, Jr., as What Finer Tradition: The Memoirs of Thomas O. Selfridge, Jr. , Rear Admiral, U.S.N. Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press, c1987. xxxviii, 288 p. : port. ; 24 cm. [Copy at LoC]
- Shackleton,
Robert.
Strange Stories of the Civil
War.
New York. Harper & Brothers, 1907. (Copy
at Mich. State Univ, UNC)
Chapter "The Battle between the 'Monitor' and
'Merrimac'" by L. E. Chittenden.
- Sharp, David.
Looking Inside Ships Through the
Ages.
Rand McNally. Chicago. 1976.
Juvenile Literature.
- Shingleton, Royce
Gordon.
John Taylor Wood, Ghost of the
Confederacy.
University of Georgia Press. Athens, GA. 1979. 229pp.
(Copy at MT)
- Shippen, Edward.
"Two Battle Pictures (A Reminiscence
of the First Ironclad Fight)."
United Service 4. Jan 1881. pp. 53-78.
- Shippen, Edward
Thirty Years at Sea
New York: Arno, 1979 Cloth. 380 pp.
Reprint of the 1879 edition.
- Shirreffs, Gordon
D.
Powder Boy of the
Monitor.
Westminster Press. Philadelphia. 1961. 188pp.
Fiction.
- Silverstone, Paul
H.
Warships of the Civil War
Navies.
Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1989. 271 pp.
- Simmons, Gerald, editor.
The Blockade: Runners and Raiders.
The Civil War, v. 3. Time-Life Books, Inc. Chicago, Illinois. 1983. 176pp. (Copy at MT)
- Sinclair, Arthur, IV
"How the Merrimac fought the Monitor"
Hearst's Magazine, December 1913, pp 884-894.
- Sloan, Benjamin.
The Merrimac and the
Monitor.
Columbia, S.C. Bureau of Publication, University of South
Carolina. 1926. 16pp. Bulletin of the Univ. of South
Carolina, no 18. Oct 15, 1926. (Copy at Duke)
- Smith, Alan C.
"The Monitor-Merrimac
Legend."
USNIP 46. Mar 1940. pp. 385-89.
- Smith, David
Rollin.
The Monitor & the Merrimac; a
Bibliography.
Los Angeles, University of California Library, 1968. 35 pp. UCLA
Library occasional papers, no. 15 (Copy at NPL,
WMVa)
- Smith, Gene A.
Iron and Heavy Guns: Duel Between
the Monitor and Merrimac.
Civil War Campaigns and Commanders Series. Ryan Place Publishers,
Fort Worth. 1996.
Excellent, concise (100 pages) book with lots of detail and little hype. (Copy at MT)
- Smith, Thomas P.
A True Description of the Fight
Between the "Merrimac" and the "Monitor" in Hampton Roads, Va.,
Sunday, March the 9th, 1862, as Witnessed by Capt. Tom Smith, an
Old Blockade Runner.
12pp. (Copy at NPL)
- Soley, James
Russell.
The Blockade and the
Cruisers.
Charles Scribners Sons. New York. 1883. pp 58-77
- Snow, Elliot.
"The Metamorphosis of the
Merrimac."
USNIP 57. Nov 1931. pp. 1518-21.
- Soucek, Ludvik.
Rakve utoci : [pro ctenare od
12 let]
[Josef Polisensky Valka Severu proti Jihu, doslov ; il. Kamil
Lhotak]. Praha : Albatros, 1976.
- Spence, Vernon
Gladden.
The Life and Naval Services of
Commodore Josiah Tattnall, 1795-1871.
Master of Arts Thesis. Southern Methodist University. June,
1947.
- Stein, R. Conrad.
The Story of the Monitor and the
Merrimac.
Illustrated by Keith Neely. Chicago : Childrens Press, 1983. 31pp
Cornerstones of Freedom series. (Copy at
Alexandria (Va) Library, NPL)
Children's non-fiction.
- Stern,
Philip van Doren.
The Confederate Navy: A Pictorial
History.
Da Capo Press. New York, 1992. (Originally Garden City. N. Y.:
Doubleday, 1962.) 253 pp.
This book presents a number of illustrations of the battle and these ships (pages 79-89). Other books in this listing have more details. (1962 copy at VMI;
1992 copy at MT)
- Stevens, William
Oliver
The Boy's Book of Famous
Warships.
R. M. McBride & Company. New York. 1916. 248pp.
- Stiles, Israel N.
"The Merrimac and
Monitor"
in Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States.
Illinois Commandery, v. 1, pp 125-133. Chicago. 1891.
Apparently reprinted by Broadfoot, Wilmington, NC., 1991. pp.
185-210.
- Still, William N.
Archival
Sources:
a study of unpublished sources found in the Washington, D.C.
area and New York City concerning the engineering and technical
aspects of the U.S.S. Monitor.
Division of Archives and History, Raleigh, N.C. 1981. Also,
Underwater Archeology Branch, Kure Beach, N.C. 16pp.
(Copy at UW-Madison)
- Still, William Norwood, Jr.
The Construction and Fitting Out of Ironclad Vessels-of-War Within the Confederacy
Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Alabama. 1964. 203pp. (Copy at MT)
- Still, William N.,
Jr.
Iron
Afloat.
University of South Carolina Press. Columbia, South Carolina.
1985. Apparently originally published in 1971 by the Vanderbilt
University Press, Nashville, Tenn. (1971 copy at
VMI;
1985 copy at MT)
- Still, William N.
Ironclad Captains : the
commanding officers of the USS Monitor
.
Marine and Estuarine Management Division, National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Dept. of Commerce : For sale by
the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O. ,Washington, D.C. 1988.
79pp. (Copy at Wayne)
- Still, William N.
Monitor
Builders:
a historical study of the principal firms and individuals
involved in the construction of USS Monitor
.
National Maritime Initiative, Division of History, National Park
Service, Dept of the Interior, Washington, D.C. 1988.
51pp (Copy at Mich State Univ, Wayne)
- Still, William
"Prelude to a Duel".
In Civil War Times Illustrated
, June, 1997.
- Still, William N., Jr., John M. Taylor, Norman C. Delaney
Raiders and Blockaders: The American
Civil War Afloat
Brassey's, Washington, London. 1998. 273pp.
Chapter 2: "The Historical Importance of the USS Monitor" by William N. Still, Jr. (Copy at MT)
- Stuyvesant, Moses
Sherwood,.
How the U.S. ship Cumberland went
down :
a paper read before the Missouri Commandery of the Military
Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, February 5th,
1887
St. Louis : Smith & Owens Print Co., 1887. 8 p. (Copy at Duke)
Also, v. I, pp 204-210. St. Louis, 1892.
- Suarce, Baron de.
Le Monitor et le
Merrimac.
Paris : Imprimerie Centrale des Chemins de Fer de Napoleon Chaix
et Ce, 1862. 23 pp. (Copy at LoV)
- Sullivan, David M.
The United States Marine Corps in the Civil War -- The First Year.
White Mane Publishing Company, Inc. Shippenburg, PA. 1997. 350pp.
See also the next three volumes.(Copy at MT)
- Swinton,
William.
The Twelve Decisive Battles of
the War: a History of the Eastern and Western Campaigns, in
Relation to the Actions that Decided their
Issue.
New York, Dick & Fitzgerald, 1867. 520 pp. (Microfiche
1970) (Copy at LoV, VPI, UVA, Wayne)
- Symonds, Craig L.
Confederate Admiral: The Life and Wars of Franklin Buchanan
Library of Naval Biography. Naval Institute Press. Annapolis, MD. 1999. 274pp. (Copy at MT)
- Tales
of Old Fort Monroe, a Series of
Monographs.
Newport News, Va., Committee for the Fort Monroe Casemate Museum,
1957. Reprinted 1962.
Contents: No. 9. Abraham Lincoln's campaign
against the Merrimac, No. 12. The Monitor and the
Merrimac.
- Tattnall,
Josiah.
Proceedings of a Naval General
Court Martial, in the Case of Captain Josiah
Tattnall.
Richmond: Macfarlane & Fergusson, 1862. (Microform 1974)
(Copy at VPI, Original at Boston Athenaeum)
- Tazewell, William
L.
Norfolk's Waters: An Illustrated
Maritime History of Hampton Roads.
Produced in association with Nautical Adventures, Inc. Windsor
Publications. Woodland Hills, CA. 1982.
The Monitor and Merrimac are covered on pages 84-95 with a number of images. (Copy at MT)
- Thompson, Stephen
C.
"The Design and Construction of
USS Monitor".
Warship International Vol. 27 (1990), No. 3, pp
222-239.
- Thurston,
Arthur.
Arthur Thurston's Tallahassee
Skipper :
the biography of John Taylor Wood, Merrimac gunner,
soldier-at-sea, guardian of the Confederate treasury, adopted Nova
Scotian.
A. Thurston Publications, Yarmouth, N.S. 1981 (1989?) (Lescarbot
Press). 434pp (Copy at UW-Madison,
UNC)
- W.P. Tilley &
Co.
A Sketch of the History and
Exploits of the Famous Confederate Ram
Merrimac:
presented to the public in connection with the enterprise of
securing, as relics, canes manufactured from the live oak timber
of this celebrated iron clad ram and which we now offer for
sale.
1876[?] 4 p. (Copy at LoV)
- Tindall, William.
The
True Story of the Virginia and the Monitor; the Account of an
Eye-witness.
Richmond, Va., Old Dominion press, inc., 1923. 90
pp (Copy at UVA, UNC) Also in The
Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol XXXI, 1923,
Virginia Historical Society. (Copy at MT)
An excellent, thoroughly researched treatise on
the battles. He draws upon much first-hand information
gathered from other witnesses and participants. This Union
soldier concludes that the Monitor withdrew from the battle
under fire and waited until the Virginia left before
venturing out into the battlefield.
- Trexler,
Harrison Anthony.
The Confederate Ironclad
"Virginia" ("Merrimac").
Chicago, Ill., The University of Chicago Press. 1938. (Reprinted
in Ann Arbor, MI, 1975) 95pp (Copy at LoV,
VMI,
NPL, UVA, NCSU)
- Trigg, Angela
A Romantic Adventurer Comes of Age:
The Life of Daniel Trigg of Abingdon, Virginia
Masters Thesis, Georgia State University. 1997. 189pp 
Daniel Trigg was on the Jamestown. This electronic copy (pdf format) supplied by, and posted with the perimission of, the author (8 Apr 2002).
- Trolle, H. af,
(Henrik).
Hinsidan Atlanten :; svensken i
Amerika : Monitor och Merrimac.
Sweden, 1905. 544pp (Copy at UMinn)
- Trotter, William
R.
Ironclads and
Columbiads
Winston-Salem, NC, J.F. Blair. 1989.
- Tucker, Rockwell G.
(compiler)
Environmental data : a survey of
the existing literature, weather, and hydrographic data related to
the environment of the Monitor Marine
Sanctuary.
:North Carolina Dept. of Cultural Resources, Division of Archives
and History. Raleigh, NC. 1979. 37pp.
- Tucker, Spencer
Arming the Fleet: U.S. Navy Ordnance
in the Muzzle-Loading Era
Naval Institute Press. Annapolis, MD. 1989. 308pp.
Well-researched detail on the Dahlgren and Brooke
guns. (Copy at MT)
- Turner, Maxine.
Navy Gray. A Story of the
Confederate Navy on the Chattahoochee and Apalachicola
Rivers.
The University of Alabama Press. Tuscaloosa, AL. 1988.357pp.
Catesby Jones and a number of the crew went to
Georgia after Drewry's Bluff. This includes them in Georgia. (Copy
at MT)
- US News & World
Report
"Have Searchers Found the
Merrimack?"
August 11, 1980, p54.
- United States Government
Printing Office[?]
Preliminary report of the
Virginia (Merrimac)-Monitor
Commission.
relative to the erection of a memorial in commemoration of the
battles of the Merrimac and the Monitor and several other vessels,
at Hampton Roads, Va., on March 8 and 9, 1862, submitted pursuant
to H. Con. Res. 32, seventy-sixth Congress.
G.P.O., Washington : 1940. Senate document (United States.
Congress (76th, 3d session : 1940-1941). Senate) ; no. 179.
Document / 76th Congress, 3d session, Sen. ; no.
179. (Copy at UW-Madison)
- United
States Government Printing Office[?]
Virginia (Merrimac)-Monitor
Commission.
House of Representatives, 76th Congress, 1st session, report no.
1168. Washington, DC. 1939?. 7pp. (Copy at LoV,
UVA, Wayne, UW-Madison) Microfiche in 1983.
- United States Gove