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Unlike anything that ever floated : the Monitor and Virginia and the Battle of Hampton Roads, March 8-9, 1862

Title
Unlike anything that ever floated : the Monitor and Virginia and the Battle of Hampton Roads, March 8-9, 1862 / by Dwight Sturtevant Hughes.
Author
Hughes, Dwight Sturtevant
Publication
El Dorado Hills, California : Savas Beatie LLC, [2021]

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Description
xxv, 165 pages : illustrations, maps; 23 cm.
Summary
"The battle between the USS Monitor and the CSS Virginia (ex USS Merrimack) erupted in Hampton Roads, Virginia, Sunday, March 9, 1862. The day before, the Confederate ironclad ram had destroyed the wooden frigates USS Cumberland and USS Congress. This first engagement between ironclad steam warships represented naval, industrial, technological, and social revolutions during the American Civil War. The dramatic story unfolds through primary accounts of men who lived it."--
Series Statement
The emerging Civil War series
Uniform Title
Emerging Civil War series.
Alternative Title
Monitor and Virginia and the Battle of Hampton Roads, March 8-9, 1862
Subject
  • Monitor (Ironclad)
  • Virginia (Ironclad)
  • 1861-1865
  • Hampton Roads, Battle of, Va., 1862
  • Military operations, Naval
  • Virginia > History > Naval operations. > Civil War, 1861-1865
  • United States > History > Naval operations. > Civil War, 1861-1865
  • United States
  • Virginia
Genre/Form
History.
Contents
Prepare for Serious Work -- Sink Before Surrender -- It Strikes Me There's Something in It -- Not the Slightest Intention of Sinking -- A Matter of the First Necessity -- She Went Down with Colors Flying -- Don't Tell Me Ever Again About Fireworks -- The Most Frightened Man -- With Mutual Fierceness -- Nearly Every Shot Struck -- Epilog: Different Fates -- Different Ironclads.
Call Number
JFE 21-7252
ISBN
  • 9781611215250
  • 1611215250
LCCN
2020027492
OCLC
1111784367
Author
Hughes, Dwight Sturtevant, author.
Title
Unlike anything that ever floated : the Monitor and Virginia and the Battle of Hampton Roads, March 8-9, 1862 / by Dwight Sturtevant Hughes.
Publisher
El Dorado Hills, California : Savas Beatie LLC, [2021]
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
The emerging Civil War series
Emerging Civil War series.
Chronological Term
1861-1865
Research Call Number
JFE 21-7252
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