Carol, In my Great Great Grandfather's memoirs, he mentioned Union Ironclads several times as "monitors." Evidently, after the original U.S.S. Monitor was built, if a similar Union Ironclad was seen and the name unknown, the Southern forces simply called it a "monitor." Edward

Edward, That's correct. A "monitor" was a class of ironclad ships. Alice J. Gayley Pennsylvania in the Civil War http://www.pa-roots.com/~pacw/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Edward Harding" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, March 12, 2006 10:40 AM Subject: Re: [CIVIL-WAR] "March 10th and 11th, 1862 - In The News" > Carol, > > In my Great Great Grandfather's memoirs, he mentioned Union Ironclads several times as "monitors." Evidently, after the original U.S.S. Monitor was built, if a similar Union Ironclad was seen and the name unknown, the Southern forces simply called it a "monitor." > > Edward > > > ==== CIVIL-WAR Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe from list mode, email [email protected] > and in the text area of the message, type only the word > unsubscribe > >