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the USS Monitor and CSS Virginia met in the Battle of Hampton Roads―the first time ironclad vessels would engage each other in combat

Nunley traces how Black women navigated social and legal proscriptions to develop their own ideas about liberty as they escaped from slavery

and never again did a Confederate army reach that far north

Radical Sacrifice: The Rise and Ruin of Fitz John Porter (William Marvel - UA) Jefferson ” admitted Robert ERadical Sacrifice: The Rise and Ruin of Fitz John Porter (Civil War America) by William Marvel Born into a distinguished military family, Fitz John Porter (1822 1901) was educated at West Point and breveted for bravery in the war with Mexico. Already a well respected officer at the outset of the Civil War, as a general in the Union army he became a favorite of George B. McClellan, who chose him to command the Fifth Corps of the Army of the Potomac.