Ironclads and Big Guns of the Confederacy 
Subtitle: The Journal and Letters of John M. Brooke (Studies in Maritime History)
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Published: April 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 257
ISBN-13: 9781570034183
Subjects: American history: c 1800 to c 1900; American history: from c 1900 -; Essays, journals, letters & other prose works; Naval forces & warfare; United States - Civil War; History: American; Confederate States of America; Warships; Military History - U.S. Civil War; Military - Naval; History; History - Military / War; USA; Correspondence; Military - United States; 1826-1906; Inventors; (John Mercer),; Biography; Brooke, John M; Brooke, John M.; Diaries
First sentence: John Brooke's surveys in the western Pacific and on the coast of Japan were interrupted when his ship, the Fenimore Cooper, was beached on the Japanese coast in a storm; he and his crew were stranded for six months.