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

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Snow, Richard, 1947- (Author)
Corporate Author: EBSCOhost
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Scribner, 2016.
Edition:First Scribner hardcover edition.
Subjects:
Hampton Roads, Battle of, Va., 1862.
Monitor (Ironclad)
Virginia (Ironclad)
Bataille de Hampton Roads, Virg., 1862.
HISTORY > Military > Strategy.
Virginia
1862
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.