The seized ironclad USS Merrimack is rechristened as the CSS Virginia and begins the effort to break the compulsory Union naval blockade.
[restored 2/8/2025]
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References:
Bruce Catton, The Civil War, (New York: American Heritage, 1960; Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1987), 287.
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