Ironclads part 1

I'm going to talk about Ironclads. The Monitor and the Virginia. So the Confederates didn't have a shipyard. But they went and got the Unions shipyard. The Union didn't want to leave the Merrimack for the Confederates so they burned it. But they were in a hurry to get away so the Merrimack didn't get all burned. The Confederates saw that they could build on top of it and they saw that it was steam powered.(The first Ironclad made was made by France steam powered and by sail its name was La Gliore) In the early 1800s They built iron on the sides of the ship so the cannon balls didn't hit it as bad. But before that the just had wood and the ship with most cannons usually won the battle. The Confederates almost built there ironclad when the Union had to build theirs faster to beat the Virginia.