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Contents: The War at Sea – Fantastic Voyage: The Long Raid of the C.S.S. Shenandoah (Beginning and ending with grand deceptions in London, England, the Confederate raider bedeviled the navies of the world.), Raise the Monitor! Can we? Should we? (The first designed ironclad, the Monitor made history in Hamptons Road in March, 1862. Now, from her grave off the Outer Banks, she challenges historic preservationists.), “Damn the Torpedoes!” The Battle of Mobile Bay (Admirals Farragut and Buchanan duel to the death in Alabama’s famous haven for blockade runners.), Matthew Fontaine Maury: From Pathfinder to Minelayer (For the U.S. Navy, Matthey Fontaine Maury charted the seas and discovered the Gulf Stream. His contribution to the Confederate cause was more explosive.) Plus: – The Making of Gettysburg: Report from the Set (How do you turn one of the best Civil War novels ever written into a movie for television? Very carefully.), Inside the Conservation Fund (Third in a series of reports on who’s who in Civil War preservation.)
Issue: July – August 1993 The Magazine of the Civil War Society
Condition: Very Good