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A Year on a Monitor and the Destruction of Fort Sumter (Studies in Maritime History)
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ISBN: 0872497615
Author: Hunter, Alvah F.
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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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A Year on a Monitor and the Destruction of Fort Sumter (Studies in Maritime History)