A Year on a Monitor and the Destruction of Fort Sumter (Studies in Maritime History)
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| Rating | : | 4.99 (717 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0872497615 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 184 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-07-20 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
The riveting story of a cabin boy in the Union navy and his participation in 19 sea battles.
He served for a year on the Nahant , a monitor-class ship performing blockade duty. Hunter kept a diary and 60 years after the Civil War wrote this narrative. Recommended for libraries with strong holdings in naval history. . Joseph G. His is one of the few accounts of wartime monitor service by an enlisted man (actually a cabin boy), but Hunter was an unusually sharp observer. Dawson III, Texas A&M Univ., College StationCopyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Library Journal In 1862, at age 16, Hunter enlisted in the Union Navy. Symonds has provided an excellent introduction and careful editing. He describes the high points of his year as well as other events and daily life aboard ship
Fascinating, a great sidelight on Civil War Naval history. Robert D. Ellis Hunter, barely past the age of 16, enlisted in the Federal Navy in November 1862 as a "ship's boy." He was never a regular seaman, but more or less a steward, or waiter in the officers' wardroom. He had great curiosity about everything he encountered in the new world of . "A Year on a Monitor and the Destruction of Fort sumter" according to Ralfk. I'm fascinated with Civil War ironclads, and this book was so interesting to read. The author, as a young man, spent a year on a monitor class ironclad. He kept a journal and years later wrote this book. Well written and absolutely great reading about the daily life aboa. One of the Two Best Books on Civil War monitors Robert Taft Kiser The author was one of those teenaged boys who had to go to war, and did, and remembered an awful lot about his experience. The only other book I am aware of, matching this, is William Keeler's about the USS Monitor. If you like the US monitors, you want them both.