Category Archives: Twenty-Ninth Massachusetts

USS Monitor restoration continues

The USS Monitor ironclad is featured in the novel in the recollections of Sergeant Timothy Chase of the 29th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment. The fictional sergeant saw the Monitor’s successful fight against the CSS Virginia ironclad in 1862 and has “dined … Continue reading

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USS Monitor crew faces reconstructed

Speaking of the USS Monitor, as I was in the previous post, scientists have been busy since they discovered the revolutionary ship’s hulk on the seabed off the coast of North Carolina forty years ago in 1973. They’ve not only … Continue reading

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Reprise: Monitors repulsed

The novel’s Sergeant Timothy Chase of the Twenty-Ninth Massachusetts made much among his fellow Union soldiers of his unique view of the Monitor and Merrimac (CSA Virgina) battle in Hampton Roads back in 1862. Chase thought he’d seen the future … Continue reading

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Reprise: The Monitor Boys

There’s a new book out about Twenty-Ninth Massachusetts Sergeant Timothy Chase’s“washtub on a skillet,” the U.S. Navy’s first iron warship, the U.S.S. Monitor. Seems the little ironclad’s crew called themselves “The Monitor Boys,” and Civil War historian John V. Quarstein has … Continue reading

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Reprise: Embalming the dead

The novel’s fictional Sergeant Timothy Chase of the 29th Massachusettes Infantry Regiment was detailed to see to the embalming and transportation of the regiment’s dead after the battle of Fort Sanders. Chase’s “scientific curiosity” led him to closely inspect the embalming … Continue reading

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Reprise: Federal troops originally fought only for the Union

In the novel, Sergeant Timothy Chase uses his eyewitness experience of the Monitor and Merrimack battle of 1862 as an entertaining dramatic narrative to deflect the anger some other federal troops occasionally turned on him and his comrades of the … Continue reading

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Embalming the dead

The novel’s fictional Sergeant Timothy Chase of the 29th Massachusettes Infantry Regiment was detailed to see to the embalming and transportation of the regiment’s dead after the battle of Fort Sanders. Chase’s “scientific curiosity” led him to closely inspect the … Continue reading

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Federal troops originally fought only for the Union

In the novel, Sergeant Timothy Chase uses his eyewitness experience of the Monitor and Merrimack battle of 1862 as an entertaining dramatic narrative to deflect the anger some other federal troops occasionally turned on him and his comrades of the … Continue reading

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