USS Monitor

Battlefield Virginia

2008-05-28 11:23:04

From the heavy guns of a seacoast fort through battle-scarred Yorktown and the swampy outskirts of Richmond, the Virginia Peninsula tells the story of a massive war campaign and the evolution of warfare. Along this finger of land cut by the York and...

Welcome to "Our Story: 400 years of history in Hampton Roads"

2013-05-03 13:10:00

When your job is writing about history, it's hard to have a week better than the one just past. One of Jamestown's oldest riddles was finally answered in pretty conclusive fashion by the butchered skull of a 14-year-old English girl -- and this first...

Navy charges 2 dive unit members with manslaughter in 2 divers' deaths at Maryland test pond

2013-05-01 16:13:31

HAGERSTOWN, Md. (AP) — Two members of a Virginia-based Navy dive unit face military criminal charges of involuntary manslaughter and dereliction of duty in the February drowning deaths of two divers at an Army facility test pond near Baltimore,...

Preserving the memory of the Monitor sailors

2013-03-08 07:42:00

Long before the start of the expedition that recovered the USS Monitor gun turret from the bottom of the Atlantic in 2002, Navy divers and NOAA archaeologists working to save the historic Civil War ship knew they might run into the remains of lost...

Lost Monitor sailors near burial

2013-03-08 00:00:00

WASHINGTON — Two sailors who perished 150 years ago in the sinking of one of history's most famous warships took a solemn step toward their final resting place Thursday when their remains were transferred to a Navy ceremonial guard at Dulles...

USS MONITOR: Two Civil War sailors to be laid to rest Friday in Arlington National Cemetery

2013-03-08 15:04:00

Two sailors who died during the Civil War have been laid to rest. A funeral was held Friday for the men who drowned when the USS Monitor sank during the Civil War. Hundreds watched the service with full military honors including WDBJ7’s Chris...

Civil War sailors laid to rest, 151 years later

2013-03-08 19:00:17

Eleven years ago, Navy Capt. Barbara "Bobbie" Scholley dived more than 230 feet into the ocean to help bring back the past: two sailors killed when their Civil War battleship sank in 1862. On Friday, the Annapolis woman joined the crew members'...

Ironclad on a rampage

2013-01-14 00:00:00

No one imagined the destruction about to unfold as the CSS Virginia eased from its berth late on the morning of March 8, 1862, for what was supposed to be its maiden voyage. But even as the sailors at Portsmouth’s Gosport Navy Yard prepared to...

First clash of the ironclads

2013-01-14 00:00:00

Few days opened more darkly for the U.S. Navy than March 9, 1862. Mangled by the lethal guns and armored sides of the CSS Virginia on the previous afternoon, the Union fleet in Hampton Roads still reeled from the brutal loss of two warships and 300...

Lincoln directs fall of Norfolk

2013-01-14 00:00:00

When Abraham Lincoln stepped ashore at Fort Monroe late on May 6, 1862, he hoped his visit would prod Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan and his Army of the Potomac into action. By the next morning, however — after finding that McClellan’s long...

Ironclad mourned 150 years after its death

2012-12-28 12:53:00

When the USS Monitor left Hampton Roads on the afternoon of Dec. 29, 1862, the southwest wind was light, the skies clear and the seas smooth. Nobody imagined that just 36 hours later the famous ship hailed as the savior of the Union after its historic...

Arlington honors for USS Monitor sailors "a proud moment"

2013-02-13 16:21:00

Two sailors who died 150 years ago when the USS Monitor sank off the coast of North Carolina will be buried next month in Arlington National Cemetery. A maritime archaeologist who helped recover the sailors' remains says the ceremony will be "a proud...

Photo Of The Week: Mar 8-Mar 15, 2013 Two sailors from the Navy Ceremonial Guard hold the flags that were on the caskets of two USS Monitor sailors laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery Friday March 8, 2013. The Monitor sank 150 years ago off the coast of North Carolina.

2013-03-08 00:00:00

A Navy ceremonial guard removes the remains of a sailor that served on the USS Monitor after they arrived at Dulles International Airport Thursday. The remains will be interred Friday at Arlington National Cemetery.

2013-03-07 00:00:00

A Navy ceremonial guard removes the remains of a sailor that served on the USS Monitor after they arrived a Dulles International Airport Thursday. The remains will be interred Friday at Arlington National Cemetery.

2013-03-07 00:00:00