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A Year on a Monitor and the Destruction of Fort Sumter (Paperback, New edition)
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A Year on a Monitor and the Destruction of Fort Sumter (Paperback, New edition)
Series: Classics in maritime history
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Loot Price R593
Discovery Miles 5 930
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This memoir begins with the sixteen-year-old Hunter's plaintive
efforts to enlist in the Navy. At a time when the Union was about
to announce its first conscription, young Hunter is told the Navy
has no need for him. But he perseveres and is 'rewarded' by an
appointment to the monitor Nahant as a wardroom boy. Hunter thus
becomes an intelligent and articulate observer at the very bottom
of the Navy's pecking order. As a novice to naval life, Hunter
takes pains to describe in detail the day-to-day aspects of working
and living on an ironclad monitor--a type of vessel whose life span
was very short. The accuracy of his memory is assured by the fact
that he compiled his narrative from a diary that he kept during the
war.--Craig L. Symonds, History Professor, U.S. Naval Academy at
Annapolis, Maryland.
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