Editing CSS Virginia (section)

==Further reading==
* {{cite book |last=Bathe |first=Greville |title=Ship of destiny : a record of the U.S. steam frigate Merrimac, 1855–1862 |publisher=printed by Allen, Lane and Scott, Philadelphia |year=1951 |oclc=4507014 |url=http://opac.navalmarinearchive.com/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=36537 |ref=bathe}} 82&nbsp;pages.
* [[James Phinney Baxter|Baxter, James Phinney]] (1968). ''[https://archive.org/details/introductionofi00baxt The Introduction of the Ironclad Warship]'', Archon Books, p.&nbsp;398.
* Besse, Sumner B., ''C. S. Ironclad Virginia and U. S. Ironclad Monitor'', Newport News, Virginia, The Mariner's Museum, 1978. {{ISBN|0-917376-32-3}}.
* DeKay, James, (1997) ''Monitor'', Ballantine Books, New York, NY.
* {{cite book|last=Silverstone|first=Paul H.|title=Civil War Navies 1855–1883|publisher=Routledge |location=New York|year=2006|series=The U.S. Navy Warship Series|isbn=0-415-97870-X}}
* {{cite book |last=Snow |first=Richard |title=Iron Dawn: The ''Monitor'', the ''Merrimack'', and the Civil War Sea Battle that Changed History |publisher=Simon and Schuster |year=2016 |isbn=978-1-4767-9420-4 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=USGzCwAAQBAJ |ref=snow}}.