Study Guide For Battle of the Monitor and the Merrimack

WHERE: Chesapeake bay and Charleston harbor

WHEN: March 8-9, 1862

CAPTAINS:
      -Union: Lieutenant John worden
      -Confederacy: Captain Franklin buchanan, lieutenant Catsby R. Jones

TROOP STRENGTH:
      -Union: five wooden warships and monitor
      -Confederacy: 2 wooden warships, a gun boat, 2 tenders, and merrimack

AIM:
      -Union: protect blockade
      -confederacy: break blockade that was stopping virginia's largest cities from international trade

OUTCOME: stalemate