Other Closely Related Historical Links

• A monument to the Monitor & Merrimack in Greenpoint, NY, where the Monitor was built.
• Participants
  • Mention of Josiah C. Freeman GAR post (Provincetown, Mass.) named in honor of Cumberland victim.
  • Mention of James R. Atwood (Provincetown, Mass.) serving on the Congress.
  • Mention of mounted cannon from the Cumberland in Oak Hill Cemetery, South Avenue, Battle Creek, Michigan.
  • A second-hand report of George P. Spaulding, serving at Newport News during the battle, who reported had a tattoo(?) done to him by one of the Virginia's crew. He served in Co. "C", 4th Reg't of Vt. Volunteers, Second Brigade, Third Division of the 6th Army Corps.
• Military Units at the battle
  • History of the 20th Regiment Indiana Volunteer who were at Newport News for the battle. A second copy.
  • History of the Massachusetts 29th Regiment Infantry who were at Newport News for the battle.
• Narratives
  • Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Chiefly about War Matters" from Atlantic Monthly, July 1862, describing the effects of the battle of the Monitor and Merrimack.
  • Myrta Lockett Avary, wife of a Confederate officer, wrote of her experiences in A Virginia Girl in the Civil War, 1861-1865, published in 1903. She wrote of her reactions on March 8, 1862.
• Jamestown Exposition of 1907
  • Naval Station Norfolk describes the Jamestown Exposition of 1907 with a cyclorama depicting the battle of the Virginia and the Monitor. See also the Great White Fleet's coverage of the Exposition, specifically the image of the Battle of the Merrimac and Monitor building. This same design was built elsewhere in the next few years (Seattle, Denver, ...) reviving interest in the battle.
  • A small mention of the Monitor-Merrimac cyclorama at the 1907 Jamestown Exposition and later in 1908 at Luna Park, Coney Island, New York.
• 1884 Vermont veterans' reunion
  • Reunion Society of Vermont Officers 1884 recounts the Battle of the Ironclads (credits Soley as the source).
• Artillery Manuals (links to CivilWarArtillery)
  • The Handbook Of Artillery by Joseph Roberts (1863) - contains descriptions of the parts of a cannon, etc. (Large: 1.8MB)
  • The Artillerist's Manual by John Gibbon (1863) (Large: 2.6MB)
• Mary Louvestre
  • A claim (which I haven't seen except here) that in 1863[sic] a slave Mary Louvestre copied plans of the Virginia before the conversion (which happened in 1861-1862), leading to the building of the Monitor. Their reference is Joe H. Mays, Black Americans and Their Contribution Toward Union Victory in the American Civil War, 1861-1865. 1984. University Press of America, Lanham, Maryland. pp 66-67.

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