Pilot the Monitor against the Virginia, or run the guns of Vicksburg!
The clash of the ironclad gunships CSS Virginia and USS Monitor at the Battle of Hampton Roads on March 9, 1862 heralded a new age of naval warfare. The steam-powered engines introduced earlier in the century had already revolutionized the mobility of nineteenth-century ships, freeing vessels of their reliance on the caprice of winds,... [click here for more]