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The CSS Virginia (an ironclad built from USS Merrimac) was destroyed by her own crew when she got stuck on the bottom of a river on May 10, 1862, just two months after her historic battle with the USS Monitor. The crew set fire to the iornclad to avoid her being captured by the Union army that took Norfolk. She blew up when the fire reached her powder magazine. The CSS Virginia was not even a year old.

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