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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: Voices Carry Farther in fog

The novel’s Sergeant Timothy Chase and Private Jeremiah Mahoney of the Twenty-Ninth Massachusetts huddled in the Union trenches just south of Fort Sanders in a foggy dawn. They whispered to each other, and to the rest of their diminished company, … Continue reading

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Voices carry farther in fog

The novel’s Sergeant Timothy Chase and Private Jeremiah Mahoney of the Twenty-Ninth Massachusetts huddled in the Union trenches just south of Fort Sanders in a foggy dawn. They whispered to each other, and to the rest of their diminished company, … Continue reading

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