
Radio War Nerd EP 327 — The US Civil War, Part 9: War on the Water
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The Virginia Runs Aground
The virginia, after being slammed by three ships all day, is basically fine. It has its steam stack gets smashed, and that affects the efficiency of the engine. After running the third union vessel aground, that was the us. The crew surrenders, flies the white flag, but a union battery on the other shore, not seeing this, keeps firing. A hundred, ten sailors are killed as a result. Nobody had seen anything like the monitor.
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