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...

The Loss of USS Monitor/Rhode Island's Rescue, December 31, 1862

On the evening of January 3, 1863, Acting Rear Admiral Sydney Phillips Lee, commanding officer of the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, di...

USS Passaic-Bringing a Bigger Gun to the Fight

  USS Passaic testing her XV-inch Dahlgren towards the Palisades. When asked by a Congressional panel investigating the outcome of the B...