Our Little Monitor : The Greatest Invention of the Civil War.
Holloway, Anna Gibson.
Our Little Monitor : The Greatest Invention of the Civil War. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (305 pages) - Civil War in the North . - Civil War in the North .
Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Tables and Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One: The Monitor in History and Memory -- Chapter 1: The Origins of the CSS Virginia -- Chapter 2: "The Navy Department Will Receive Offers . . ." -- Chapter 3: Building the Monitor -- Chapter 4: The Battles of Hampton Roads -- Chapter 5: "The Pet of the People": The Monitor in Popular Culture -- Chapter 6: Aftermath of Battle -- Chapter 7: "The Monitor Is No More" -- Chapter 8: Discovery and Recovery -- Part Two: A Documentary Record of the USS Monitor -- Chapter 9: The U.S. Gun Boat Currituck Escorts the Monitor to Hampton Roads, March 3-9, 1862 -- Chapter 10: Firsthand Accounts of the Battle of Hampton Roads, March 8-10, 1862 -- Chapter 11: President Lincoln's Mailbag, March 10-17, 1862 -- Chapter 12: An Engineer's View from the Monitor, May 14-June 30, 1862 -- Chapter 13: Repairing the Monitor: News Reports from October and November 1862 -- Chapter 14: Two Surgeons Observe the Monitor's Final Moments: December 30, 1862, to January 11, 1863 -- Appendix: Specifications of the Merrimack and Virginia Before and After Conversion -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.
9781631012648
Monitor (Ironclad).
Virginia (Ironclad).
Hampton Roads, Battle of, Va., 1862.
United States-History-Civil War, 1861-1865-Naval operations.
Electronic books.
E595.M7 .H655 2017
973.7/5
Our Little Monitor : The Greatest Invention of the Civil War. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (305 pages) - Civil War in the North . - Civil War in the North .
Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Tables and Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One: The Monitor in History and Memory -- Chapter 1: The Origins of the CSS Virginia -- Chapter 2: "The Navy Department Will Receive Offers . . ." -- Chapter 3: Building the Monitor -- Chapter 4: The Battles of Hampton Roads -- Chapter 5: "The Pet of the People": The Monitor in Popular Culture -- Chapter 6: Aftermath of Battle -- Chapter 7: "The Monitor Is No More" -- Chapter 8: Discovery and Recovery -- Part Two: A Documentary Record of the USS Monitor -- Chapter 9: The U.S. Gun Boat Currituck Escorts the Monitor to Hampton Roads, March 3-9, 1862 -- Chapter 10: Firsthand Accounts of the Battle of Hampton Roads, March 8-10, 1862 -- Chapter 11: President Lincoln's Mailbag, March 10-17, 1862 -- Chapter 12: An Engineer's View from the Monitor, May 14-June 30, 1862 -- Chapter 13: Repairing the Monitor: News Reports from October and November 1862 -- Chapter 14: Two Surgeons Observe the Monitor's Final Moments: December 30, 1862, to January 11, 1863 -- Appendix: Specifications of the Merrimack and Virginia Before and After Conversion -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.
9781631012648
Monitor (Ironclad).
Virginia (Ironclad).
Hampton Roads, Battle of, Va., 1862.
United States-History-Civil War, 1861-1865-Naval operations.
Electronic books.
E595.M7 .H655 2017
973.7/5