Dreams of ships, dreams of Julia
Subtitle: at sea with the Monitor and the Merrimac--Virginia, 1862
By: by Maureen Stack Sappéy.
Series: Young Americans series ;; #2
Publisher: White Mane Pub.
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Shippensburg, PA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 98
Subjects: Monitor (Ironclad) -- Fiction.; Merrimack (Frigate) -- Fiction.; Blind -- Fiction.; People with disabilities -- Fiction.; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Naval operations -- Juvenile fiction.; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Naval operations -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: A young engineering student leaves Harvard to help build an ironclad ship to defend the Union against Confederate naval forces, and is subsequently blinded in the Battle of Hampton Roads.