Editing USS Monitor (section)

===Primary sources===
*{{cite book |last=Brooke |ref=Brooke |first=John Mercer |author-link=John Mercer Brooke |title=Ironclads and Big Guns of the Confederacy: The Journal and Letters of John M. Brooke |publisher=Univ of South Carolina Press |year=2002 |isbn=978-1-57003-418-3}} 
*{{cite book |first1=Cornelius Scranton |last1=Bushnell |first2=John |last2=Ericsson |first3=Gideon |last3=Welles |ref=Bushnell |title=The original United States warship "Monitor" |publisher=National Memorial Association |location=New Haven, Connecticut |year=1899 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FLlAAAAAYAAJ}} 
*{{cite book |last=Dahlgren |first=Madeleine Vinton |title=Memoir of John A. Dahlgren, Rear-Admiral United States Navy |ref=Dahlgren |publisher=J. R. Osgood |year=1882 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vfpBAAAAYAAJ}} 
* {{cite web |title=Eye-witness Account of the Battle between the U.S.S. ''Monitor'' and the C.S.S. ''Virginia'' |year=1862 |last=Green (USN) |first=Lieutenant Samuel Dana |ref=Green |publisher=U.S. Navy, Naval Historical Foundation, Washington, DC |access-date=18 July 2013 |url=http://www.navyhistory.org/eye-witness-account-battle-between-uss-monitor-css-virginia/ |archive-date=8 December 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131208085253/http://www.navyhistory.org/eye-witness-account-battle-between-uss-monitor-css-virginia/ |url-status=dead }}
*{{cite book |title=OFFICIAL RECORDS of the UNION AND CONFEDERATE NAVIES in the WAR OF THE REBELLION |last1=Rawson |first1=Edward K., Superintendent Naval War Records |last2=Woods |first2=Robert H. |ref=Rawson |year=1898 |publisher= Government Printing Office |location=Washington D. C. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=96cSAAAAYAAJ}} 
*{{cite book |title=Diary of Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy Under Lincoln and Johnson |volume=1 |last=Welles |first=Gideon |author-link=Gideon Welles |ref=Welles |year=1911 |publisher=Houghton Mifflin Company |location=Boston and New York |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jsdFt7XOr9QC}}
*{{cite book |title=The ''Monitor'' and the ''Merrimac'': Both Sides of the Story |last1=Worden |first1=John Lorimer |last2=Greene |first2=Samuel Dana |last3=Ramsay |first3=H. Ashton |last4=Watson |first4=Eugene Winslow |ref=Worden |author-link=John Lorimer Worden |publisher=Harper and Brothers |location=New York, London |year=1912 |url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_rC5XAAAAYAAJ}}