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 industrial might of the Union was put to full use in the construction of ‘Ericsson’s Battery.’ The pieces and parts that would become the USS Monitor were constructed in foundries from Buffalo to Brooklyn, and Albany to Baltimore. Find out who built the Monitor—and how they did it in 100 days. Included in regular admission. Adults, $12; AAA members, military, students, $11; seniors, $10; children (6-12), $7.