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Ironclads and big guns of the Confederacy : the journal and letters of John M. Brooke / edited by George M. Brooke, Jr.
- Title
- Ironclads and big guns of the Confederacy : the journal and letters of John M. Brooke / edited by George M. Brooke, Jr.
- Author
- Brooke, John M. (John Mercer), 1826-1906
- Publication
- Columbia : University of South Carolina Press, c2002.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Brooke, George M.
- Description
- xv, 257 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "Loaded with previously unavailable information about the Confederate Navy's effort to supply its fledgling forces, the wartime diaries and letters of John M. Brooke (1826-1906) tell the story of the Confederate naval ordnance office, its innovations, and its strategic vision. As Confederate commander of ordnance and hydrography in Richmond, Virginia, during the Civil War, Brooke numbered among the military officers who resigned their U.S. commissions and "went South" to join the Confederate forces at the onset of the conflict. A twenty-year veteran of the United States Navy who had been appointed a midshipman at the age of fourteen, Brooke was largely a self-taught military scientist whose inventions included the Brooke Deep-Sea Sounding Lead. In addition to his achievements as an inventor, Brookes was a draftsman, diarist, and inveterate letter-writer. His copious correspondence about military and personal matters from the war yields detailed and often unexpected insights into the Confederacy's naval operations."--Jacket.
- Series Statement
- Studies in maritime history
- Uniform Title
- Studies in maritime history
- Subject
- Brooke, John M. 1826-1906 > Diaries
- Brooke, John M. 1826-1906 > Correspondence
- Confederate States of America. Navy > Officers > Diaries
- Confederate States of America. Navy > Officers > Correspondence
- Virginia (Ironclad)
- Confederate States of America. Navy > Ordnance and ordnance stores
- 1861-1865
- Inventors > Confederate States of America > Biography
- United States > History > Naval operations, Confederate. > Civil War, 1861-1865
- United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Personal narratives, Confederate
- Genre/Form
- Biographies
- Diaries
- History
- Personal narratives – Confederate
- Personal correspondence
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-252 and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction : Brooke's actions on the eve of war -- Brooke's resignation from the United States Navy and appointment to Confederate service -- Conversion of the Merrimac to the Virginia and experiments in ordnance -- The Virginia in Hampton Roads -- James River defense, inventions, personal woes, and promotion -- Developments in ordnance -- Personal sorrow and continued activity in ordnance -- Hard work to the end.
- ISBN
- 1570034184 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2001005642
- OCLC
- 48014807
- SCSB-12127483
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library