Reign of Iron The Story of the First Battling Ironclads, the Monitor and the Merrimack

Name: Reign of Iron The Story of the First Battling Ironclads, the Monitor and the Merrimack
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ISBN: 9780060524043

ISBN-10: 0060524049

ISBN-13: 9780060524043

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Authors: James L. Nelson

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At the outbreak of the Civil War, North and South quickly saw the need to develop the latest technology in naval warfare, the ironclad ship. After a year-long scramble to finish first, in a race filled with intrigue and second guessing, blundering and genius, the two ships -- the Monitor and the Merrimack -- after a four-hour battle, ended the three-thousand-year tradition of wooden men-of-war and ushered in "the reign of iron." In the first major work on the subject in thirty-five years, novelist, historian, and tall-ship sailor James L. Nelson, acclaimed author of the Brethren of the Coast trilogy, brilliantly recounts the story of these magnificent ships, the men who built and…

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List price: $16.99
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 3/29/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 5.31" wide x 8.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English

James L. Nelson is a native of Maine & a former professional square-rig sailor. He still lives in Maine with his wife & children, where he continues to write & maintain his involvement with traditional sail. He is the author of "By Force of Arms", "The Maddest Idea", "The Continental Risque", & "Lords of the Ocean".



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Sink Before Surrender



Sea Trials of the Monitor



Birth of the Ironclads



Pawnee Steams South



Panic



The Fall of Norfolk



The Confederate States Navy



A Chieftain Without a Clan



An Ironclad for the North



An Ironclad for the South



"Three Skilful Naval Officers"



Merrimack Redux



John Ericsson



The Princeton



"Another Ericsson Failure"



"She Will Be Your Coffin"



"An Iron-Clad, Shot-Proof Steam Battery ..."



Hard Terms



Many Vexatious Delays



The Ericsson Battery



"Do You Really Think She Will Float?"



Monitor--Person or Device for Checking or Warning



"The Vessel Was Called ... Virginia."



John L. Worden



A Novelty in Naval Construction



Testing Her Capabilities



March 8



That Ship Must Be Burned



On the Crater of a Volcano



A Gleam of Lightning



"And Thus Commenced the Great Battle ..."



The First Fight of the Ironclads



The Reign of Iron



"Merely Drilling the Men at the Guns"



The Last Meeting



The End of the Progenitors



Cape Hatteras


Epilogue: The Old Jack Tar Feeling


Notes


Selected Bibliographies


Virginia


Monitor


General


Index