No old Iron sides was a ship used in the war of 1812. A British cannon ball hit the side of the ship on freshly cut replacement board. The board was strong enough to with hold the shock of the cannon ball. A sailor on the that ship called her "old Iron sides" from then on.
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Did you know that a Swedish engineer designed the Monitor, an ironclad ship in the Civil War? A+
The Merrimac(the south's ship) and the Monitor(the North's ship)
The Union
The Confederacy's Ship (Merrimack) And the Union's Ironclad Ship (Monitor)
He fought in WW1, not the Civil War..Enlisted at age 29.