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<p>Yesterday's post brought us back to the year 2005 via flashback. Today we go
all the way back to 1862 and the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Hampton_Roads">Battle of Hampton Roads</a>. It is an interesting event historically
as it was the first conflict between two “ironclad” warships, the USS <i>Monitor</i>
and the CSS <i>Virginia</i> (often referred to as the <i>Merrimack</i> in the North).
Neither warship is intact anymore, the <i>Virginia</i> was scuttled by the Confederacy to
keep it from falling into enemy hands and the <i>Monitor</i> was lost in a storm. However,
bits and pieces of both vessels can be found in Richmond and Newport News, Virginia. I
had been meaning to track them down for a while, and when I realized Jasper was going
to be in Raleigh, it seemed like a good weekend to do both.</p>
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