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- Aug 25, 2012
Tonight's reading will be The Rams at Hampton Roads by Chuck Veilt (Journal of the Company of Military Historians Fall 2017 which was delivered this last week). What should I find out from reading about these rams?
I understand the Argo was chartered by the Army or Navy and when the ship got the assignment to ram the Merrimack/Virginia the civilian crew refused and were mostly replaced with volunteer "contrabands of war" from the stevedores found in Fort Monroe area.
I understand the Argo was chartered by the Army or Navy and when the ship got the assignment to ram the Merrimack/Virginia the civilian crew refused and were mostly replaced with volunteer "contrabands of war" from the stevedores found in Fort Monroe area.