This occasional series highlights important dates surrounding the USS Monitor and the CSS Virginia. Mariners’ Museum staff and volunteers will present these informative, illustrated lectures. The USS Monitor never met the CSS Virginia in battle again after the March 9, 1862 engagement. The Confederate ironclad was destroyed by her own crew to keep her out of Union hands following the fall of Norfolk in May.  But the Monitor did meet members of the Virginia’s crew again during the engagement at Drewry’s Bluff on May 15, 1862. Find out the story behind this battle in this illustrated lecture. Included in regular admission. Adults, $12; AAA members, military, students, $11; seniors, $10; children (6-12), $7.