Mention Civil War naval confrontations and the Monitor instantly springs to mind. The first of the ironclads, the Monitor not only took part in a major battle,

This biography tells the remarkable story of John Ericsson, a Swedish-American inventor, engineer, and naval architect who played a major role in the developmen

Biography of John Ericsson, Swedish inventor and designer of U.S. "Ironclad Monitor", which influenced the course of the Civil War.