Reign of iron : the story of the first battling ironclads, the Monitor and the Merrimack

The Resource Reign of iron : the story of the first battling ironclads, the Monitor and the Merrimack

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Reign of iron : the story of the first battling ironclads, the Monitor and the Merrimack

Title remainder

the story of the first battling ironclads, the Monitor and the Merrimack

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James L. Nelson

Language

eng

Summary

The first ironclad ships to fight each other, the Monitor and the Virginia (Merrimack), were the unique products of American design genius and ingenuity, North and South. In one afternoon, in a battle that lasted four hours, they ended the three-thousand-year tradition of wooden men-of-war and ushered in, as Admiral John A. Dahlgren called it, "the reign of iron."
In this absorbing history, novelist, historian, and tall-ship sailor James L. Nelson, through in-depth research and a storyteller's voice, brilliantly recounts the story of these magnificent ships, the men who built and fought them, and the extraordinary battle that made them legend

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NMP

Dewey number

973.7/52

Illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

E595.M7

LC item number

N45 2005

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Target audience

adult

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