Hello to everyone from Hampton, VA. I am new (duh) and a huge civil war buff (and Stonewall Jackson fanatic). I am also a Docent at The Mariners Museum in Newport News, Va (in my spare time from the Navy which is my regular job). We just opened the Monitor Center, so naturally I am well versed in that area and would love to discuss it (as well as anything pertaining to the War of Northern Agression...lol). I look forward to many interesting discussions and learning from all of you.
Welcome to the group, Ironclad. Hope you enjoy your stay here. I really like the Mariner's Museum. I attended a lecture there given by Ed Bearss on the Battle of Hampton Roads, aka the USS Monitor vs. the CSS Virginia. This was back in around 1998 or so. If you haven't toured the Richmond Battlefield Complex, I highly recommend it.
Welcome ironclad. Your first assigment, should you choose to accept it ......
Not long ago a question was asked on the Gosport Navy Yard. You would be doing all of us a favor if you looked that up and filled us in. It's under General Discussions, last post: 3/18.
Ole
__________________ I never knew a man who wished to be himself a slave. Consider if you know any good thing that no man desires for himself. A. Lincoln
__________________ "The American people and the Government at Washington may refuse to recognize it for a time but the inexorable logic of events will force it upon them in the end; that the war now being waged in this land is a war for and against slavery." Frederick Douglass
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wElcome; my own knowledge of the US & CS navies is primarily concentrated in the River warfare out west. I look forward to your contributions.
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Hello to everyone from Hampton, VA. I am new (duh) and a huge civil war buff (and Stonewall Jackson fanatic). I am also a Docent at The Mariners Museum in Newport News, Va (in my spare time from the Navy which is my regular job). We just opened the Monitor Center, so naturally I am well versed in that area and would love to discuss it (as well as anything pertaining to the War of Northern Agression...lol). I look forward to many interesting discussions and learning from all of you.
I'm very pleased to get confirmation that the invading yanks were just as agressive in eastern Virginia as here in Tennessee! One of my ancestors was in the 48th Virginia and probably had the chance to salute Gen. Jackson a few times. Welcome aboard. I too, look forward to learning from you.
__________________ Ancestors in US Army: 13th TN Cav; 10th TN Cav; 3rd NC Inf
Ancestors in CSA Army: 48th VA; 63rd VA, 5th NC Cav; 37th NC
Wife and Grandson's CSA: 15th AL, 51st GA, 41st TN; 36th TN; GA Mil 1197 Dist
More seriously, take advantage of your time on the Yorktown Peninsula and Norfolk Area. There's a lot of Civil War and Revolutionary War sites there. Plenty of battlefields including Seven Days, Yorktown, Williamsburg, Petersburg, Drewry's Bluff and related sites such as City Point, Five Forks are all within your grasp. Drewry's Bluff is notable in that the Virginia's crew manned the guns after they scuttled their ship. From there they fought the Monitor again in the attempt by Rodgers to shell Richmond from the James River.
"Monitor Center," is that where they have the turret now?
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Union Ancersor: Pvt Arnuah Norton, 60th Ohio. (G-G-G Grandfather) Died at Salisbury NC, November 3, 1864
Confederate Ancestors: Captain Thomas A. Morrow, 29th Texas Cavalry (G-G-G- Uncle) and 2LT George W. Morrow, 31st Texas Cavalry (G-G-G Grandfather). Both survived the war
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