"I Have Shouldered This Fleet" Gustavus Fox and "Monitor Mania" -- Forging the Fleet: Alban C. Stimers and the Passaic Project -- The Navy Looks West -- Mobilization on the Ohio River -- Miserable Failures: Combat Lessons and Political Engineering -- A Million of Dollars: The Price of "Continuous Improvement" -- Progress Retarded: The Harbor and River Monitors, 1863-1864 -- The Sudden Destruction of Bright Hopes: The Downfall of the General Inspector -- Good for Fifty Years: Winding Down the Mobilization -- Additions, Alterations, and Improvements: Reversing Technological Momentum -- Tabular Data for Passaic- and Tippecanoe-Class Monitors