Reign of iron : the story of the first battling ironclads, the Monitor and the Merrimack

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Reign of Iron : The Story of the First Battling Ironclads, the Monitor and the Merrimack

by Nelson, James L.

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Section	Section Description	Page Number
	Acknowledgments	p. xv
	Introduction	p. 1
1	Sink Before Surrender	p. 5
2	Sea Trials of the Monitor	p. 19
3	Birth of the Ironclads	p. 31
4	Pawnee Steams South	p. 41
5	Panic	p. 51
6	The Fall of Norfolk	p. 60
7	The Confederate States Navy	p. 69
8	A Chieftain Without a Clan	p. 75
9	An Ironclad for the North	p. 83
10	An Ironclad for the South	p. 91
11	"Three Skilful Naval Officers"	p. 98
12	Merrimack Redux	p. 107
13	John Ericsson	p. 114
14	The Princeton	p. 120
15	"Another Ericsson Failure"	p. 127
16	"She Will Be Your Coffin"	p. 137
17	"An Iron-Clad, Shot-Proof Steam Battery ..."	p. 144
18	Hard Terms	p. 152
19	Many Vexatious Delays	p. 159
20	The Ericsson Battery	p. 165
21	"Do You Really Think She Will Float?"	p. 175
22	Monitor--Person or Device for Checking or Warning	p. 183
23	"The Vessel Was Called ... Virginia."	p. 192
24	John L. Worden	p. 202
25	A Novelty in Naval Construction	p. 210
26	Testing Her Capabilities	p. 219
27	March 8	p. 229
28	That Ship Must Be Burned	p. 239
29	On the Crater of a Volcano	p. 251
30	A Gleam of Lightning	p. 259
31	"And Thus Commenced the Great Battle ..."	p. 265
32	The First Fight of the Ironclads	p. 274
33	The Reign of Iron	p. 284
34	"Merely Drilling the Men at the Guns"	p. 292
35	The Last Meeting	p. 301
36	The End of the Progenitors	p. 313
37	Cape Hatteras	p. 321
	Epilogue: The Old Jack Tar Feeling	p. 336
	Notes	p. 347
	Selected Bibliographies	p. 355
	Virginia	p. 355
	Monitor	p. 358
	General	p. 361
	Index	p. 363