The Monitor chronicles
Subtitle: one sailor's account : today's campaign to recover the Civil War wreck
By: the Mariners' Museum ; edited by William Marvel.
Contributors: Geer, George S.; Marvel, William.; Mariners' Museum (Newport News, Va.)
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
Subjects: Geer, George S. -- Correspondence.; Monitor (Ironclad); Sailors -- United States -- Correspondence.; Shipwrecks -- North Carolina -- Hatteras, Cape.; Underwater archaeology -- North Carolina -- Hatteras, Cape.; Excavations (Archaeology) -- North Carolina -- Hatteras, Cape.; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Naval operations.; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives.
Genres: Correspondence.; Personal narratives.
Description: "The Monitor Chronicles brings shipboard experience to life through the words of Civil War sailor George S. Geer, whose never-before-published letters home to his beloved wife, Martha, faithfully chronicle the events of that dramatic year. Like many men of his station, George S.

Geer had joined Abraham Lincoln's navy less to help save the Union than to earn money and learn a reliable trade, so his accounts are unflinchingly honest - at times colored by the bravado of a man at war, at others tinged with the pathos of a man in danger and far from home."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-266) and index.
Historical text largely based on and including Civil War letters written by George Geer.