Ironclads on the Georgia Coast - Monitor vs. Fort II

Ironclads USS  Passaic , Patapsco and Nahant bombarding Ft. McAllister. Note monitor Montauk hanging back with the wooden gunboats.   Ad...

Ironclads on the Georgia Coast - Destruction of the CSS Rattlesnake

Blockade runner CSS Nashville ; converted into the commerce raider CSS Rattlesnake After two attempts by the ironclad monitor gunboat USS Mo...

Ironclads on the Georgia Coast - Monitor vs. Fort I

USS Montauk (left) laid up in 1902. The proud warship would be scrapped a couple years later. Image source: Naval History and Heritage Comma...

Chasing After CSS Nashville: November 19, 1862

 A Northern newspaper cartoon mocking the U.S. Navy's inability to capture CSS Nashville.  CSS Nashville was the Confederate State g...

Operations on the Savannah River - Early 1862

Tattnall's fleet engaging USN gunboats on the Savannah River (source - Naval History and Heritage Command on-line photo archive): After ...