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Catalog Updated 8/29/2010 2:04:00 PM |
Dug New York coat button $45.00 |
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 WELCOME TO HAMPTON ROADS RELICS
NEW ITEMS ADDED ON AUGUST 29, 2010
ALL NEW, REDUCED PRICES ON CIVIL WAR ITEMS
YOUR CIVIL WAR DEALER IN QUALITY ITEMS
This site is dedicated to the sale of Civil War items and relics, including US and Confederate buckles, artillery shells, bullets, buttons, eagle plates, revolvers, swords, carbines and muskets; Indian artifacts, mallet and onion bottles, black glass, fossils and sharks teeth. Hampton Roads Relics is an on line shopping experience. The website comes to you at the click of a button on your hand held or desktop. You can reach me anytime by email at hamptonroadsrelics@gmail.com. All items on this site are guaranteed original or your money back.
PLEASE CHECK BACK AS ITEMS ARE ADDED WEEKLY
RARE 30LB NAVAL HOTCHKISS SHELL LISTED, RARITY 10/10
See rare Indian bowl from the Chesepian Indians offered for sale. Many Civil War artillery shells and Civil War period revolvers listed.
BATTLE OF THE IRONCLADS
 The CSS Virginia (formerly the USS Merrimack), an ironclad, made her way into Hampton Roads, Virginia on March 8,1862 and started on a course of methodical destruction of the Union's wooden vessels, the USS Congress and USS Cumberland. The epic battle that forever changed Naval warfare and ship construction occurred on March 9, 1862, when the USS Monitor, another ironclad, poised to protect the grounded USS Minnesota engaged the CSS Virginia. The battle ended in a draw, however the Union fleet was saved from total destruction.
Damage to the Monitor's turret as the result of solid shot fired from Virginia's 9 inch guns.
  Two months after the major battle of the ironclads, the Confederacy blew up the CSS Virginia on May 11, 1862, off Craney Island in Portsmouth, Virigina to avoid her capture by Union forces. The war would last another three years.
 In less than 10 months time after the battle of the ironclads, the USS Monitor met its fate on December 31,1862, when it sank during a storm in the Atlantic ocean off the Outer Banks in North Carolina. The Union built other ironclads like the USS Monitor that would be used for blockades and destroying Confederate coastal forts.
The watery grave of the USS Monitor discovered in 1973.
Artifacts recovered from the USS Monitor can be viewed at the Mariners' Museum in Newport News, Virginia.
More information can be obtained by visiting their website at http://www.marinersmuseum.org/
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