How did the virginia show southern ingenuity?

they had developed the first warship.

they had repurposed a sailing vessel.

they had designed an unsinkable ship.

they had created the only ironclad warship ever imagined.

The correct answer is: They had developed the first warship.

The CSS Virginia was the first armored warship of the Confederate States Navy, built by people from Virginia during the American Civil War.

The Virginia CSS started to work on February 17, 1862. On March 8, it departed from Norfolk directed to the Union ships that watched at Hampton Roads the river mouth of the James River.

b.provides a written record of the transaction

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