CSS Virginia

CSS Virginia
This is an original watercolor based upon my research of the ship. There are many illustrations of the Virginia, none or which are truly accurate. A trip to the Hampton Roads Naval Museum in Norfolk to view their extremely detailed model provided me with the detail that I was looking to create this painting. The CSS Virginia, erroneously called the Merrimack by revisionist historians , was the most notable of all the Confederate ironclads. It's epic battle with the Union Ironclad Monitor at Hampton Roads is one of the most significant events of the War of Northern Aggression.