River Panorama

River Panorama is a view of the battle site in 1862 where the USS Monitor, USS Galena and two other ships attempted to draw Confederate forces away from the main battlefields of the Gen. George B. McClellan's Peninsula Campaign. The earthwords and cannon visible are part of Fort Drewry, one of the principal river defense installations for Richmond. The Bouy in the river is approximately where the Monitor and Galena were when the fighting was going on. They came no closer to Richmond.