A Year on a Monitor and the Destruction of Fort Sumter - Alvah F. Hunter - Softcover Nap12 paradoxical and even tragic than

paradoxical and even tragic than the myth suggests

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A Year on a Monitor and the Destruction of Fort Sumter - Alvah F. Hunter - Softcover Nap12 paradoxical and even tragic thanThis memoir begins with the sixteen year old Hunter's plaintive efforts to enlist in the Navy. At a time when the Union was about to announce its first conscription, young Hunter is told the Navy has no need for him. But he perseveres and is 'rewarded' by an appointment to the monitor Nahant as a wardroom boy. Hunter thus becomes an intelligent and articulate observer at the very bottom of the Navy's pecking order. As a novice to naval life, Hunter