tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3586104591124883214.post4754635337426752776..comments2024-03-20T17:21:09.119-07:00Comments on Tattered and Lost EPHEMERA: DECORATION DAYTattered and Losthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00208918251232477186noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3586104591124883214.post-36373540106121145442012-12-05T23:41:46.400-08:002012-12-05T23:41:46.400-08:00Felix, thank you! You are a wonderful fount of inf...Felix, thank you! You are a wonderful fount of information. You are nicely filling in holes I was not able to fill.Tattered and Losthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00208918251232477186noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3586104591124883214.post-82546409641496743512012-12-05T22:54:53.647-08:002012-12-05T22:54:53.647-08:00I was surprised to see this postcard. I still hav...I was surprised to see this postcard. I still have an identical one that was sent to my mother in 1912 when she was a little girl. The little girl on the postcard looked a lot like my mom who was about the same age at that time.<br /><br />An interesting, additional aspect of that Decoration Day postcard is that in the lower left corner there is a simple depiction of the Battle of the Monitor and the Merrimack [a.k.a. Merrimac]. That famous U.S. Civil War naval battle is historically more appropriately known as the Battle of Hampton Roads and took place on Saturday and Sunday, March 8 and 9, 1862 near Hampton Roads, Virginia. Even though that naval battle was indecisive, it is historically significant because it was the first naval battle anywhere between ironclad warships.<br /> <br />In the small image on the postcard the Union fleet's USS Monitor is depicted on the left, and shown on the right is what in 1862 was the Confederate fleet's CSS Virginia. [CSS Virginia = Confederate States Ship Virginia] Before the outbreak of the war the CSS Virginia had been a Federal ship known as the USS Merrimack. During the Battle of Hampton Roads, the USS Monitor and the CSS Virginia were both accompanied by several supporting ships of their respective Union and Confederate fleets.<br />Felix09noreply@blogger.com