Iron dawn : the Monitor, the Merrimack, and the Civil War sea battle that changed history /
Snow, Richard, 1947-
Iron dawn : the Monitor, the Merrimack, and the Civil War sea battle that changed history / Richard Snow. - First Scribner hardcover edition. - pages cm
Terrible havoc: March, 1862 -- Augury -- Disgrace -- The first necessity -- Old Father Neptune -- The once and future Merrimack -- Guns -- The power of alliteration -- The entrepreneur -- The inventor -- The peacemaker -- Perfect protection -- Something in it -- No battle, no money -- The tardy patriot -- Trial run -- The prisoner takes command -- Paymaster Keeler comes east -- Like a duck -- A visit to Lincoln -- March 8: iron against wood -- Frightful news -- The short, bad voyage -- March 9: iron against iron -- Victors -- Echoes -- Hawthorne visits the future -- Tatnall's turn -- Lincoln in the field -- Not the way to Richmond -- Doldrums -- Hatteras -- Landfall.
9781476794181
2016006965
Monitor (Ironclad)
Virginia (Ironclad)
Hampton Roads, Battle of, Va., 1862.
United States--History--Naval operations.--Civil War, 1861-1865
E473.2 / .S67 2016
973.7/31
Iron dawn : the Monitor, the Merrimack, and the Civil War sea battle that changed history / Richard Snow. - First Scribner hardcover edition. - pages cm
Terrible havoc: March, 1862 -- Augury -- Disgrace -- The first necessity -- Old Father Neptune -- The once and future Merrimack -- Guns -- The power of alliteration -- The entrepreneur -- The inventor -- The peacemaker -- Perfect protection -- Something in it -- No battle, no money -- The tardy patriot -- Trial run -- The prisoner takes command -- Paymaster Keeler comes east -- Like a duck -- A visit to Lincoln -- March 8: iron against wood -- Frightful news -- The short, bad voyage -- March 9: iron against iron -- Victors -- Echoes -- Hawthorne visits the future -- Tatnall's turn -- Lincoln in the field -- Not the way to Richmond -- Doldrums -- Hatteras -- Landfall.
9781476794181
2016006965
Monitor (Ironclad)
Virginia (Ironclad)
Hampton Roads, Battle of, Va., 1862.
United States--History--Naval operations.--Civil War, 1861-1865
E473.2 / .S67 2016
973.7/31