Iron dawn : the Monitor, the Merrimack, and the Civil War sea battle that changed history Cover Image

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Iron dawn : the Monitor, the Merrimack, and the Civil War sea battle that changed history / Richard Snow.

Snow, Richard, 1947- (author.).

Record details

ISBN: 9781476794181
ISBN: 1476794189
Physical Description: xii, 395 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Edition: First Scribner hardcover edition.
Publisher: New York : Scribner, 2016.
Copyright: ©2016

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

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.