{"id":3165,"date":"2026-03-09T00:20:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T04:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=3165"},"modified":"2025-12-11T20:08:24","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T01:08:24","slug":"monitor-and-merrimac-two-ironclad-ships-battled-in-1862-during-the-civil-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=3165","title":{"rendered":"Monitor and Merrimac, Two Ironclad Ships, Battled in 1862 during the Civil War"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_14018\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14018\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14018\" src=\"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Monitor.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"154\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-14018\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">USS Monitor<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong><em>Monitor<\/em> and <em>Merrimac<\/em>, two ironclad ships, battled in 1862 during the Civil War<\/strong>. The <em>Merrimac<\/em>, a Confederate vessel, and the <em>Monitor<\/em>, a Union ship, exchanged fire. Both pulled away after about two hours. Neither ship was severely damaged. Children could learn more at: <a href=\"https:\/\/learning.blogs.nytimes.com\/2012\/03\/09\/march-9-1862-the-monitor-and-merrimac-face-off-in-battle-of-hampton-roads\/\">Monitor and Merrimac<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monitor and Merrimac, two ironclad ships, battled in 1862 during the Civil War. The Merrimac, a Confederate vessel, and the Monitor, a Union ship, exchanged fire. Both pulled away after about two hours. Neither ship was severely damaged. Children could learn more at: Monitor and Merrimac.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4756,356,5372,3327,3326],"class_list":["post-3165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-4756","tag-civil-war","tag-march-9","tag-merrimac","tag-monitor","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3165"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29238,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3165\/revisions\/29238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}