I found an excellent USS Monitor Center blog while looking at the TOCWOC (The Order of Civil War Obsessively Compulsed) blog of Brett Schuelte. Lots of pictures and keeps you up-to-date on what is going on the preservation of the turret and other items. They've done a laser scan of the starboard XI-inch Dahlgreen gun.
www.mariners.org/exhibitions/ussmonitorcenter/blog.php.
http://www.brettschulte.net/CWBlog
WOMEN OF THE CIVIL WAR
http://womenofthecivilwar.blogspot.com
For an under reported aspect of the war. Most recently a two-part entry on Confederate spy Rose O'Neal Greenhow who drowned near Fort Fisher when the blockade-runner she was coming in on, the Condor was chased by a Union gunboat and ran aground. She boarded a lifeboat which capsized in the heavy surf on September 30, 1864,
There are also entries on Sarah Edmonds and Elizabeth Van Lew.
Dig a Little Deeper. --B-R'er
The Battle of Fort Fisher, N.C.
