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The Lexington Goes Down: The Last Seven Hours of a Fighting Lady

Hoehling, A.A.

PRENTICE/HALL

Thunder at Hampton Roads

History

Americas

Civil War diaries and memoirs of inhabitants of besieged Vicksburg and soldiers reveal the heroism and sacrifice that marked the Confederate experience.

Vicksburg: 47 days of siege

The Jeannette Expedition,: An ill-fated journey to the Arctic

Abelard-Schuman

On March 9, 1862, the "battle of the century" took place at Hampton Roads. The U.S.S. Monitor, the world's first all-iron fighting ship, repulsed the Confederate ironclad Merrimack. In so doing, the Yankee vessel demolished forever the "wooden walls" of the fleet's oak and billowing canvas and helped ensure a Northern victory in the Civil War. Thunder at Hampton Roads is the only book that covers the entire story of the Monitor, from its inception to its rediscovery in 1973. Drawing on personal accounts and old logs, Hoehling describes the life and times of the famous ship. Ridiculed as a freak of its day, the Monitor was specifically designed to combat the indestructible Merrimack. But is was such an odd-looking craft that one Union officer told the Swedish inventor, John Ericsson, to take his model home "and worship it, as it would not be idolatry, because it was in the image of nothing in the heavens above, or on the earth beneath, or in the waters under the earth." Hoehling brings to life the exciting race between North and South to achieve naval supremacy. He vividly re-creates the Monitor's famous clash with the Merrimack and gives a dramatic account of how a team of marine scientists rediscovered the Monitor twelve miles off Cape Hatteras, resting on the ocean floor. Thunder at Hampton Roads is the complete story of one of the world's greatest fighting ships.

Thunder At Hampton Roads: The U.S.S. Monitor--Its Battle with the Merrimack and Its Recent Discovery

Travel

Grand Central Publishing

The Great War at sea: A history of naval action, 1914-18

Greenwood Press

Great ship disasters

Cowles Book Co.

This penetrating and provocative book captures the tragic relaities of war, reveals the varied human responses to the inhumanities arising during times of violent crisis. It permits readers to follow the final 36 hours in the life of Congederate Richmond, to share with those who experienced those frightful yet fascinating events what it was like to be in the historic city "set on a hill" waiting amidst crackling flames and exploding magazines for the victors to march in. No Civil War buff and no one who appreciates a good story and first-rate history will want to miss this.

The Day Richmond Died

Hoehling, Mary

Stan Clark Military Books

Recounts battles between Union and Confederate ships, and looks at the technological developments that influenced the course of the war

Damn the Torpedoes! Naval Incidents of the Civil War

Gramercy

Recalls the tragic realities of civil war through eyewitness accounts of the Confederate states, including observations by Lincoln, Lee, Grant, news correspondents, and ordinary citizens

Last Days Of The Confederacy

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