wasn't the merrimack renamed the virginia? do northerners prefer to call it the merrimack? newspapersead the you can look at the captions most of them say merrimack. so , it was the uss merrimack. it was an american ship the confederates seized and burned to the shoreline. they said let's call it the virginia, after the state we are in. the name never really caught on. purists always say the uss -- css virginia. but there's -- how can you resist that alliteration, the monitor and the merrimack? it goes by both. call it the merrimack more often than not. you left it open, because the virginia was so slow and heavy when the tide went down it left. to leave the field of battle, that's losing. by another calculation, the monitor was able to prevent any further destruction to the outdated wooden fleet. so it was a victory by those standards, too. even though by winning the victory it spelled the doom of the wooden navy itself. everything was iron after that. >> back to the naming of the monitor and the merrimack. do northerners prefer to call it or does it just sound right? >> i

i call it the merrimack more often than not. yes, they both claimed victory but because the virginia was so slow and heavy, when the tide went down it left. you leave the field of battle, that's losing. and then by another calculation, the monitor was able to prevent destruction to the outdated wooden fleet. it was a victory by those standards, too, even though by winning the victory, it sort of spelled the doom of the wooden navy itself. >> but back to just sort of the naming, the monitor and the merrimack, of course the alliteration is great. do northerners prefer to call it the merrimack or does it just sort of sound right? >> it sounds right. i think they prefer it because it's a recovered vessel of the past that we had our way with, i guess. but civil war historians are more often say the virginia. and by the way, it eventually, it's probably the only ship in american service to be burned twice because when the union army marched near norfolk and looked about to capture the boat yard there, the confederates burned it, burne

merrimack, new hampshire, republican nine. good morning. aller: i notice joe biden said he had to pick a block for vice president. when the women dropped out, he lost the women vote. i guess he figures a graph -- a just about will their color and gender and not worry about issues. joe biden doesn't have any issues and he can't run on his i find it ironic he would narrow his choices on that basis. i have some recommended reading. "uncle tom's'scabi -- tom's cabin." guest: this is not an issue of joe biden trying to convert to black women, it is an issue of ginning up the base and increasing turnout. the idea that joe biden has lost women because he took women out in the debate, that doesn't really have merit considering that women have been trending toward the democrat party, especially since the trump administration. it's been going on for over a decade now. was going to have support come in. on top of voters' mind is donald trump. margins have been increasing with latina voters. problem inbe a places like arizona, where margins make a big

second of all, there were two major events on the same day, battle of merrimack and battle of p. ridge, which were much more important and much more well covered by the media. this could have led to a battle but johnston's army just recouped and waited for another day. but as you mentioned, val, when we started, the webb family was wealthy and they wanted to remember their relative, who was called a harry. in fact, the original title of this painting is much more dramatic, "the gallant charge of lieutenant harry hidden." i don't know why it was changed to an episode of the war. it was commissioned by the family and displayed in regiments for years. you know, he's considered one of -- i doubt this because this is 1862, he's considered the first union cal vary officer to die during the war. i'm not sure that's possible but we'll go for it for now. you know what i neglected to mention, if we can think back to colonel corcoran again. it's okay to make athis point now. corcoran did get out of prison, our irish brigade hero. he got out be presidenten and recovered and went the back int

he got another relic from the hull ofe -- burned the merrimack, the ship we discussed last week. he got some faded, translucent leaves from the battle of gettysburg that had been allegedly bloodied from the battle in july. he got them in the fall when the leaves were falling off the tree and turning. he got so. .eynes -- he got soap he got keynes, walking sticks, anything you can imagine. , "if there'ss wife one thing we are going to get out of this, it's new clothes." toortunately, she took that heart and thought that meant she should run up the credit card. ms. paley: which she did. mr. holzer: which she did. ms. paley: the next part of the collection is a footlocker. there's nothing glamorous about living in the field, but the experience of generals is different than that of privates. want to talk about that a little bit? mr. holzer: generals had their andtents and servers chairs. our friend was a mapmaker, very important in battle in terms of quickly sketching out terrain. he got this kind of -- it looks rustic, but it is really an utilitarian footlocker. carry-onthe very bes

he got another relic from the burned hull of the merrimack, the ship we discussed last week. he got some faded, translucent leaves from the battle of gettysburg that had been allegedly bloodied in the battle in july. he got them in the fall when the leaves were falling off the tree s and turning. he got socks, he got soap, bibles, canes, walking sticks, anything you can imagine. as he said to his wife, as another suit arrived unsolicited hem a taelor -- a tailor said, "if there's one thing we are going to get out of this, it's new clothes." unfortunately, she took that to heart and thought that meant she should run up the credit card. ms. paley: which she did. mr. holzer: which she did. ms. paley: the next part of the collection is not clothing, but a footlocker with belongings. there's nothing glamorous about living in the field during the civil war, but the experience of generals is different than that of privates. do you want to talk about that a little bit? mr. holzer: generals, of course, had their own tents and servers and chairs. our friend was a mapmaker, very importa

second of all, there were two major events going on the same day, the merrimack battle and the battle of peerage in the west -- the battle of peerage in the west. they were more well covered by the media. this could have led to a battle, but johnson's army just waited for another day. as you mentioned when we the family was wealthy. the original title of this painting was much more dramatic. the gallant charge of lieutenant harry hidden. i don't know why they changed it to an episode of the war. it was commissioned by the family and displayed in regiments for years. even though he is considered -- i doubt, because this is 1862, he is considered the first union cavalry officer to die during the war. i am not sure that is possible, but we will go with it by now. if we could think back to corcoran. hegot out of prison, recovered, he went back into the hevice, and ignominiously was killed when his horse fell on him. what the battle of bull run could not do the colonel corcoran. horses. like a lot of people do. they petrified me. so all power to henry hidden for doing all this. valerie: ye

he got another relic from the burned hull of the merrimack, the ship we discussed last week, that battled monitor. he got some faded translucent leaves from the battle of gettysburg that had been allegedly bloodied in the frenzy of the battle in july. he got them in the fall when the leaves were falling off the trees and turning. he got socks. he got soap. bibles. anything you can imagine. as he said to his wife once when another suit arrived unsolicited from a tatailor, he said if there's one thing we're going to get out of this, it's new clothes. unfortunately, she took it to the heart and thought that meant she should run up the credit card bill. >> which she did. >> which she did. >> our next object also is not clothing, fashion, but a foot locker, with belongings. nothing luxurious by any stretch of the imagination, but the experience of generals is very different from that of privates. we want to talk about that a little bit? is. >> generals had their own tents and beds and chairs. i think our friend, william payne, was a step below. he was a cartographer, a mapmaker. very important

the answer is "b" -- the merrimack.ion ship salvaged by the south and rechristened as the virginia. in 1862, it faced off against the monitor in the first duel between ironclad ships. >> by the 1990s, william atteridge has built an armada of nearly 1,000 model ships. visitors from around the world travel to his makeshift museum in the louisiana woods to see his amazing craft. did he charge people to come in? >> his museum was donations only. they would drop a couple dollars in a bucket and he'd let them go through there and he would talk them to death. and, finally, it was almost like, "okay, we got to go." [ chuckles ] >> one of his early patrons -- louisiana state university historian gary joiner. do you remember the first time walking in? >> absolutely. the first thing i saw was this giant model of the c.s.s. arkansas. and i said, "you know what you're doing." >> was he a teacher? >> he was to me. he was a historical sponge. >> gary commissions william to build ships to use as visual aids in his classes -- 17 in all.

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