Talk:Battle of Hampton Roads

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Contents 1 Historical names: Merrimack, Virginia, Merrimac 2 Pictures 3 Updates 4 Thumbs up

[edit] Historical names: Merrimack, Virginia, Merrimac

The name of the warship which served the Confederacy in the famous Battle of Hampton Roads eventually became a continuing source of confusion, to the present day.

Of course, she was commissioned by the Confederacy as CSS Virginia. However, even after she was rebuilt, the Union preferred to call the Confederate ironclad warship by its earlier name, "Merrimack." Perhaps because the Union won the US Civil War, the history of the United States generally records the Union version wherever there is a name discrepancy with Confederate naming. However, in an apparent quirk in history, at some later time, the name commonly used was shortened to drop the final "-k", hence "the Battle of the Monitor and the Merrimac".

The small community in Montgomery County near the location where the iron for the Confederate ironclad was forged is now known as Merrimac, Virginia. The name of the Monitor-Merrimac Memorial Bridge-Tunnel, built in Hampton Roads in the general vicinity of the famous engagment, with both Virginia and federal funds, reflects this more recent version.

This section got cut out, but some version of needs to be restored, to explain why this battle is so commonly called "the Battle of the Monitor and the Merrimac"--as is demonstrated by the name of the bridge. The euphonious alliteration was probably a factor.

—wwoods 11

07, 19 Nov 2004 (UTC)

I moved it over to the article on the CSS Virginia, since it's mainly about that ship, rather than about the battle. If you want to put a simplified version back in, feel free. --Carnildo 19:42, 19 Nov 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Pictures

Here are a bunch of public domain pictures I've found for use in this article. Place them where you like. --brian0918™ 02:22, 21 Dec 2004 (UTC)

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There are also some nice public domain pictures here as well, although you might want to see if you can find larger originals so that the quality is better. --brian0918™ 12:18, 25 Dec 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Updates

Thanks, |brian0918! The new color painting and box look very nice. I will try to work on articels for the red links (int links to non-existant articles), as these are often a stumbling block to fac status. Vaoverland 20:07, Dec 22, 2004 (UTC)

If you want info, this would probably be the place to get it. All the info on that site is public domain, so you could simply copy and paste it if you wanted to, making sure to put a battlebox in for each of those articles. I know that Wikipedia doesn't like people copying and pasting, but I've never agreed with them on it, especially in the case of public domain material. Everytime something is paraphrased, some information is most likely lost, and unless the toughest critics are actually going to check all the facts in every article to make sure that info wasn't paraphrased/summarized incorrectly, they need to keep quiet. It's better to provide the public with the most correct information than with some inadequate alternative for originality's sake. (now I'm starting to ramble...) --brian0918™ 12:08, 25 Dec 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Thumbs up

I'm sure you all are aware this is a featured article. Kudos, it is an excellent article. Stirling Newberry 18:02, 26 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Stirling Newberry didn't erase what you wrote. Besides, it made no sense and was more like vandalism than anything else. How was school today? --brian0918™ 21:25, 26 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Very well. I understand your logic. But where does,"How was school today?",come from ?-Flyingcheese 12:46, 29 Jan 2005 (UTC)

I would just like to thank the creators for building this. Helpful for school shit--> Alex Wilhelm