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The Monitor chronicles : one sailor's account : today's campaign to recover the Civil War wreck

by Mariners' Museum (Newport News, Va.), William Marvel

This illustrated volume details the history and recovery of the Civil War ironclad USS Monitor. Through the unpublished letters of a shipboard sailor, it provides an honest, firsthand account of daily life and duty aboard the vessel during its dramatic year of service in 1862.

Accession 21529 ISBN 0684869977 Publisher Simon & Schuster
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