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The Monitor Chronicles : One Sailor's Account. Today's Campaign to Recover the Civil War Wreck
The Monitor Chronicles One Sailor's Account Today's Campaign to Recover the Civil War Wreck
Author: Mariners' Museum
ISBN-13: 9780684869971
ISBN-10: 0684869977
Publication Date: 7/3/2000
Pages: 272
Rating:
  • Currently 3.7/5 Stars.
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3.7 stars, based on 3 ratings
Publisher: Simon Schuster
Book Type: Hardcover
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hardtack avatar reviewed The Monitor Chronicles : One Sailor's Account. Today's Campaign to Recover the Civil War Wreck on + 2719 more book reviews
A great account of the career of the U.S.S. Monitor and George Geer, a landlubber who shipped aboard her at the Monitor's commissioning and stayed aboard until the ship sunk.

Based on Geer's fascinating letters home to his wife, the story of the Monitor and the officers and seamen who served aboard her unfolds in a very human tale. Geer is eventually commissioned as third assistant engineer after the Monitor sinks and stays in the U.S. Navy until the end of the war.

Only the last chapter deals with the Monitor's discovery on the seabed and the preparations to bring her to the surface once again.

I really enjoyed Geer's letters and his numerous misspelling of words. Civil War reenactors could use this book as a guide to write those letters--complete with authentic mispellings--home or for mail call at living histories.