What were the consequences of Stephen Russell Mallory's advocacy for ironclad warships for the navy?
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However, efforts to secure ironclads from England and France proved futile, and of the few constructed in the Confederacy the most outstanding, the Virginia (see Monitor and Merrimack ) and the Mississippi, had to be destroyed to prevent their falling into Union hands.
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