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What it says on the tin. What needs to be done to have Swedish inventor John Ericsson http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ericsson
who IOTL invented the USS Monitor to submit his talents and designs to the CS Navy instead of the US navy during the US Civil War?

IOTL, Ericsson before 1861 had a strained relationship with the US Navy after the USS Princeton disaster so is it not too much of a stretch to have him give his talents to the Confederacy instead of the Union. Would the Confederacy want or be able to build an analouge to the Monitor? How does this effect the war as a whole?
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