Corrected entry: When Duke is talking to the sailor from Alabama, Junior, he is informed that Junior's great-grandfather served on the Merrimac. No Southerner would ever have referred to the CSS Virginia as the "Merrimac".
Rlvlk
7th Nov 2005
7th Nov 2005
Corrected entry: When Duke is talking to the sailor from Alabama, Junior, he is informed that Junior's great-grandfather served on the Merrimac. No Southerner would ever have referred to the CSS Virginia as the "Merrimac".
Correction: According to the official CSS Virginia website, some southern sources did refer to it as the Merrimac\Merrimack. BTW, according to them, the proper spelling is Merrimack, after the Merrimack river. http://cssvirginia.org/.
Rlvlk