The Monitor Chronicles: One Sailor's Account. Today's Campaign to Recover the Civil War Wreck
- List Price: $35.00
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster
- Publish date: 07/01/2000
Description:
In January 1862, the Union ironclad Monitor stopped a bloody rampage threatened by the Confederate ship Virginia. Their historic clash changed the course of naval warfare. The major navies of the world quickly recognized that the era of wooden warships was over. But on a stormy December 31, 1862 -- less than a year after its moment of glory -- the Monitor went down, sinking 230 feet beneath the treacherous waters off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, where it still remains.
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Including more than one hundred photographs, paintings, and technical plans (many never before seen outside the Museum's collections) that document the ship's career, The Monitor Chronicles features never-before published letters by a common Civil War sailor, adding an illuminating personal dimension to this fascinating chapter in American history. And in a tantalizing final section, this book gives readers a front-row seat at the new drama unfolding as men and machines attempt to raise the Monitor from her watery grave.
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