Kamis, 07 September 2017

Experience: Life on an Ironclad

A Union sailor’s letters describe his posting at Richmond’s naval front and the Confederacy’s final days. The story of the common soldier in the American Civil War is well known. Less familiar are narratives of the common sailor’s life below deck. One remarkable collection hiding in plain sight is a series of two dozen letters …

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