Battle of Hampton Roads

The future of naval warfare was impacted by the Battle of Hampton Roads. Because of the blockade, there was a jump forward in science and technology. The invention of the ironclad naval ships threw the idea of wooden vessels out the window, because the ironclad ships capabilities greatly surpassed that of the wooden ships. The Battle of Hampton Roads was a very historic battle because it was the first battle in naval warfare that was between ironclad ships. It was a very significant event that took place in the Civil War when the Confederate States ship, the CSS Virginia, and the North’s ship, the USS Monitor, fought in the Battle of Hampton Roads. It was also the only real significant naval battle in the American Civil War. The CSS Virginia…

However, some battles see a greater emergence of new technology and leadership than others do. The Battle of Hampton Roads during the Civil War is one of the paramount battles that lead to the growth of the United States Navy, due to the fact this encounter between the Union and Confederate ironclad ships was unlike any other naval engagement that preceded it. On March 9, 1862 after a two-day intense struggle, the Union ironclad, USS Monitor, left Hampton Roads as the victor due to the…

Elizabeth River Tolls Every day, two of my brothers leave on a forty to fifty-minute drive to get to the commissary at Scott Annex in Portsmouth, where my brothers work as grocery baggers. They must drive another forty or more minutes to get home, meaning they spend over an hour a day on the roads. My family lives in Norfolk, where the commissary should only be a twenty to thirty-minute drive away. However, my brothers do not want to pay the toll required to take the Downtown tunnel. Thusly,…

I had the pleasure of interviewing Alvita Davis, a Qualified Mental Health Professional who works with Family Behavioral Health & Healing at the Therapeutic Day Treatment program. Alvita, Qualified Mental Health Professional (QMHP) has provided services to at risk youth ages (5-18) in the Hampton Roads area for over ten years, counseling them inside the home as well as in a community setting. Her field of experience covers but is not limited to: anger management, grief/loss, post traumatic…

Washington arrived to The Hampton Institute, he only had .50 cent that he had left from working, and his clothes were dirty. Mr. Washington was so excited to be there and felt accomplished by his journey. When He got there he went straight to the mistress in charge and he stated that (“I could see at once that there were doubts in her mind about the wisdom of admitting me as a student” (Booker T. Washington. Excerpt: “up from Slavery. 1901 Page5.) Mr. Washington felt that she was only seeing…

staring with the election of president Lincoln, war was declared between two halves of a country. Although the land battles are more renown, maritime shipping and Naval strength soon showed their importance to the war effort. Naval battles and military marine interactions took place in all of the maritime domains, from the brown water of the Mississippi river to the blue water of the Pacific Ocean. The naval strategies used by both the north and the south varied depending on which maritime…

Lincoln believed that the time to negotiate had passed and Northerners would have to physically overpower the Confederates to win control of the southern states.The Southerners had sought their independence and prepared for a defensive battle while the Northerners had developed offensive campaigns to preserve the Union. President Lincoln had moved on to quickly call for northern states to send volunteers, totaling 75,000, to join the Union army. The Confederacy did not have an established army…

popularly known as the Merrimac after the ship from which it had been salvaged, became the first ironclad warship to sink an enemy vessel, when it attacked the Union fleet at Hampton Roads sinking the USS Cumberland and running the USS Congress aground. The following day, the USS Monitor, the first ironclad warship of the United States Navy, arrived at the natural harbor and the two state of the art vessels engaged each other in the first battle between ironclad warships in world history. The…

During the Battle of Hampton Roads the Confederate ironclad the Virginia, aided by steam propulsion, revived the use of ramming to take down the Union ship the Cumberland (Potter, 1981, pg. 128). The Virginia was able to put three ships out of action and kill 250 Union sailors while sustaining minor damage to her topside and two guns (Potter, 1981, pg. 128). The use of ironclad battleships rendered wooden fleets useless. Their heavy solid shot ammunition would ricochet harmlessly off of their…

states. On April 12th, 1861, the Confederate states ultimately began the Civil War when they fired upon Fort Sumter, South Carolina. This battle began when United States Major Robert Anderson and his eighty-five men made the move from Fort…