TY - BOOK AU - Snow,Richard TI - Iron dawn: the Monitor, the Merrimack, and the Civil War sea battle that changed history SN - 9781476794181 AV - E473.2 .S67 2016 U1 - 973.7/31 23 PY - 2016/// CY - New York PB - Scribner KW - Monitor (Ironclad) KW - Virginia (Ironclad) KW - Hampton Roads, Battle of, Va., 1862 KW - United States KW - History KW - Civil War, 1861-1865 KW - Naval operations N1 - Terrible havoc: March, 1862 -- Augury -- Disgrace -- The first necessity -- Old Father Neptune -- The once and future Merrimack -- Guns -- The power of alliteration -- The entrepreneur -- The inventor -- The peacemaker -- Perfect protection -- Something in it -- No battle, no money -- The tardy patriot -- Trial run -- The prisoner takes command -- Paymaster Keeler comes east -- Like a duck -- A visit to Lincoln -- March 8: iron against wood -- Frightful news -- The short, bad voyage -- March 9: iron against iron -- Victors -- Echoes -- Hawthorne visits the future -- Tatnall's turn -- Lincoln in the field -- Not the way to Richmond -- Doldrums -- Hatteras -- Landfall ER -