Best friends Kenneth Reynolds and Raymond Jordan are U.S. Navy officers, and Kenneth is engaged to Raymond's sister. But the eruption of the Civil War divides them, as Raymond stands by his native Virginia while Kenneth remains on duty as a Northern officer. Kenneth's uncle, John Ericsson, designs a new kind of ship, an ironclad he calls the Monitor. Eventually the war pits Kenneth, on board the Monitor, against his friend Raymond, serving aboard the South's own ironclad, the Merrimac (as it is called here). A naval battle ensues, one that will go down in history.

Cast

James Dunn

Lt. Kenneth Reynolds

Mae Clarke

Constance Jordan

David Manners

Raymond Jordan

Charlotte Henry

Julie Buchanan

Henry B. Walthall

Capt. Buchanan

Fritz Leiber

Capt. John Ericsson

George Irving

Commodore Jordan

Smiley Burnette

Rammer