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A Year On a Monitor and the Destruction of Fort Sumter Classics in Maritime History
author
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Hunter, Alvah Folsom.; Symonds, Craig L.
publisher
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University of South Carolina Press
isbn10 | asin
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0872497615
print isbn13
:
9780872497610
ebook isbn13
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9780585354828
language
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English
subject
Hunter, Alvah Folsom, Nahant (Ship) , Fort Sumter (Charleston, S.C.) , United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Naval operations, United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives, Sailors--United States--Biography.
publication date
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1987
lcc
:
E595.N33H86 1987eb
ddc
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973.7/5
subject
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Hunter, Alvah Folsom, Nahant (Ship) , Fort Sumter (Charleston, S.C.) , United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Naval operations, United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives, Sailors--United States--Biography.
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A Year on a Monitor and the Destruction of Fort Sumter
by Alvah Folsom Hunter Edited and with an Introduction by Craig L. Symonds
Page iv
Title page photo: The Nahant leads a stationary parade of monitors laid up in ordinary at League Island, New York, after the war.
Dust jacket photo: Called back into service for the Spanish-American War, the Nahant served as a harbor defense vessel. The extensive canvas tarp and other impedimenta on the afterdeck would be struck for battle (U.S. Navy).
Copyright University of South Carolina 1987 Published in Columbia, South Carolina, by the University of South Carolina Press Manufactured in the United States of America
First paperback edition, 1991
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Hunter, Alvah Folsom. A year on a monitor and the destruction of Fort Sumter. (Classics in maritime history) Includes index. 1. Hunter, Alvah Folsom. 2. Nahant (Ship) 3. Fort Sumter (Charleston, S.C.) 4. United StatesHistory Civil War, 18611865Naval operations. 5. United StatesHistoryCivil War, 18611865Personal narratives. 6. SeamenUnited StatesBiography. I. Symonds, Craig L. II. Title. III. Series. E595.N33H86 1987 973.7'5 [B] 87-20971 ISBN 0-87249-531-0 ISBN 0-87249-761-5 (pbk)
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William N. Still, Jr., Series Editor
Classics in Maritime History
What Finer Tradition: The Memoirs of Thomas O. Selfridge, Jr., Rear Admiral, U.S.N. by Thomas O. Selfridge, Jr.
A Year on a Monitor and the Destruction of Fort Sumter by Alvah F. Hunter
Confederate Navy Chief: Stephen R. Mallory by Joseph T. Durkin
Admiral of the New Empire: The Life and Career of George Dewey by Ronald Spector
Sloops & Shallops by William A. Baker
The Panama Route, 18481869 by John Haskell Kemble
The Confederate Privateers by William Morrison Robinson, Jr.
Studies in Maritime History
Stoddert's War: Naval Operations During the Quasi-War with France, 17981801 by Michael A. Palmer
The British Navy and the American Revolution by John A. Tilley
Iron Afloat: The Story of the Confederate Armorclads by William N. Still, Jr.
A Maritime History of the United States: The Role of America's Seas and Waterways by K. Jack Bauer
Confederate Shipbuilding by William N. Still, Jr.
Raid on America: The Dutch Naval Campaign of 16721674 by Donald G. Shomette and Robert D. Haslach
Lifeline of the Confederacy: Blockade Running During the Civil War by Stephen R. Wise
Admiral Harold R. Stark: Architect of Victory, 19391945 by B. Mitchell Simpson, III
History and the Sea: Essays on Maritime Strategies by Clark G. Reynolds
Predators and Prizes: American Privateering and Imperial Warfare, 17391748 by Carl E. Swanson
"We Will Stand by You": Serving in the Pawnee, 19421945 by Theodore C. Mason
Page vii
Contents
Editor's Introduction
xi
1 Getting into the Navy
3
2 Getting Acquainted with the Nahant
11
3 The Long Voyage to New York The Voyage to Fortress Monro
19
4 The Voyage to Port Royal The Fighting at Fort McAllister
28
5 Repairing Damages Fishing and Other Recreations
39
6 The Attack of the Iron Clad Fleet upon Fort Sumter
47
7 Again Repairing Damages Restoring the Crew Blackberrying Pleasures
62
8 The Capture of the Ram Atlanta
73
9 Pleasures at Port Royal Getting Ready for the Next Move A Visit to the Ram Atlanta
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