![]() Congress met her blazing death at hands of Confederate ironclad sailors.ĭriving across that amazing bit of engineering, long and low, a straight road thirty feet above the water, illuminated at night by brilliant streetlamps, one wonders what the men of the Monitor or Merrimack would think, could they see it. ![]() About midway across the mouth of the James River, the bridge plunges down into a tunnel, emerging at just about the exact point where the U.S.S. Where the first battle of ironclads took place, the five-mile-long Monitor-Merrimac Memorial Bridge Tunnel now connects Newport News with Portsmouth to the south. ![]() ![]() If you go to Newport News, Virginia, today you can do something quite unique-drive over the site of a naval battle. ![]()
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