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Author Hunter, Alvah Folsom

Title A year on a monitor and the destruction of Fort Sumter / by Alvah Folsom Hunter ; edited and with an introduction by Craig L. Symonds
Published Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press, ©1987

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 184 pages) : illustrations
Series Classics in maritime history
Classics in maritime history.
Contents Getting into the Navy -- Getting Acquainted with the Nahant -- A Long Voyage to New York -- The Voyage to Fortress Monroe -- The Voyage to Port Royal -- The Fighting at Fort McAllister -- Repairing Damages -- Fishing and Other Recreations -- The Attack of the Iron Clad Fleet upon Fort Sumter -- Again Repairing Damages -- Restoring the Crew -- Blackberrying Pleasures -- The Capture of the Ram Atlanta -- Pleasures at Port Royal -- Getting Ready for the Next Move -- A Visit to the Ram Atlanta -- The Attack of the Army and Navy upon Morris Island -- Three Weeks' Sick Leave -- The Assault upon Fort Wagner and Death of Colonel Shaw -- The Adventures of the Nahant -- Repairing and Refitting -- A Personal Difficulty -- Fighting Forts Wagner and Sumter -- A Torpedo Attack upon the Ironsides -- The "Swamp Angel" -- Fort Wagner Taken -- The Weehawken Aground -- A Naval Assault upon Fort Sumter -- Finding a Floating Mine -- Another Night Attack upon the Ironsides -- A Day's Liberty -- Visiting Fort Wagner and Battery Gregg -- Three Weeks in Port Royal -- Near to a Disaster -- The Lehigh Aground -- A Good Thanksgiving Dinner -- The Story of "Pickled Eels' Feet" -- The Fate of the Weehawken -- My Time Expired -- Homeward Bound -- A Blockade Runner Captured and a Visit to Her -- The Voyage to Boston -- Paid Off and Discharged
Summary At the age of 16, Alvah F. Hunter enlisted in the Navy and was assigned to a Union Civil War monitor. He engaged in 19 sea battles, principally in the destruction of the batteries that protected Charleston, S.C., thereby closing the ports to blockade runners. In 1863, he received an honorable discharge as a "1st Class Cabin Boy." The following year, he joined the Signal Corps of the Army, where he served until the war was over. He later married and became a father and a successful businessman, although he is known to Civil War historians solely on the basis of his manuscript, A Year on a Monitor and the Destruction of Fort Sumter. The memoir is believed to have been written during the war or shortly thereafter and is virtually the only writing in print by an enlisted person during the Civil War era
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Hunter, Alvah Folsom
SUBJECT Hunter, Alvah Folsom fast
Subject Nahant (Ship)
SUBJECT Nahant (Ship) fast
Subject Sailors -- United States -- Biography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
HISTORY.
Military operations, Naval
Sailors
SUBJECT Fort Sumter (Charleston, S.C.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85050902
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Naval operations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140251
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140261
Subject South Carolina -- Charleston -- Fort Sumter
United States
Genre/Form autobiographies (literary works)
Autobiographies
Biographies
History
Personal narratives
Autobiographies.
Personal narratives.
Biographies.
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Récits personnels.
Form Electronic book
Author Symonds, Craig L
LC no. 87020971
ISBN 0585354820
9780585354828
9780872497610
0872497615