BOOK MONITOR (CIVIL WAR SHIP) (BOX49)

 COURTESY OF GIBSONS TACTICAL TAVERN                                                                       MILITARY SURPLUS LISTING INDIVIDUALLY PICTURED

 MONITOR: THE STORY OF THE LEGENDARY CIVIL IRONCLAD AND THE MAN WHOSE INVENTION CHANGED THE COURSE OF HISTORY

AUTHOR: JAMES TERTIUS deKAY

PUBLISHER: WALKER AND COMPANY   NEW YORK

COPYRIGHT: 1997 BY JAMES TERTIUS deKAY

ISBN: 0-8027-1330-0 (HARDBACK)

   ON MARCH 9, 1862, AN EPIC BATTLE WAS FOUGHT THAT NOT ONLY AFFECTED THE COURSE OF THE CIVIL WAR, IT FOREVER CHANGED THE FACE OF NAVAL WARFARE.  A UNIQUE MIXTURE OF TECHNOLOGY AND EVENTS BROUGHT THE MONITOR AND MERRIMAC TOGETHER ON THAT DAY IN HAMPTON ROADS, VIRGINIA, IN THE FIRST BATTLE OF IRONCLAD SHIPS.  HOWEVER, THEY WOULD NEVER HAVE MET HAD IT NOT BEEN FOR THE ENGINEERING GENIUS AND DETERMINATION OF ONE MAN, JOHN ERICSSON.                                                                                                                                      MONITOR IS THE FASCINATING SAGA OF ARGUABLY THE MOST FAMOUS SHIP IN AMERICAN HISTORY, OF THE EVENTS LEADING UP TO AND FOLLOWING THE BATTLE, AND OF THE PEOPLE WHO MADE THEM HAPPEN.  IT IS A VERY HUMAN STORY.                       JOHN ERICSSON HAD HAD AN IDEA FOR A MOBILE IRONCLAD AS FAR BACK AS 1826, AND REFINED IT DURING THE THIRTY FIVE YEARS IT TOOK FOR SOMEONE TO COMMISSION HIM.  THE ENGLISH AND THE FRENCH, IN TURN, HAD DECLINED HIS VISION, AND HIS CLEVER MIND HAD FOCUSED ON OTHER INVENTIONS THAT WERE MORE READILY ACCEPTED. NONETHELESS, HIS "SUBAQUATIC SYSTEM OF NAVAL WARFARE" REMAINED CLOSE TO HIS HEART, AND FINALLY, IN THE SUMMER OF 1861, IT BECAME A HISTORICAL NECESSITY.                                                                                                SECRETARY OF THE NAVY GIDEON WELLES WAS DESPARATE FOR AN ANSWER TO THE MERRIMAC, WHICH EVERYONE KNEW THE CONFEDERATES WERE ARMORING, AND TURNED TO VENTURE CAPITALIST CORNELIUS BUSHNELL FOR ADVICE. BUSHNELL WAS LED TI ERUCSSON, RECOGNIZED HIS GENIUS AND ???????????????????????

                        READ AND FIND OUT HOW THE MONITOR AND                                                                     MERRIMAC ARE USED TO CHANGE HISTORY!