Title: Dreams of ships, dreams of Julia
First published: 1998
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.
Subjects: Blind, Fiction, History, Juvenile fiction, Merrimack (Frigate), Monitor (Ironclad), Naval operations, People with disabilities, United States Civil War, 1861-1865
Places: United States
Time periods: Civil War, 1861-1865
LC classification: PZ7.S2388 Dr 1998