References in Popular Culture
- The film Hearts in Bondage (Republic Pictures, 1936), directed by Lew Ayres, tells the story of the building of the USS Monitor and the following Battle of Hampton Roads.
- The album The Monitor, the second studio album by New Jersey band Titus Andronicus, ends with a fourteen minute tribute to the battle, and is conceptually based around the American Civil War and the eponymous USS Monitor.
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