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Wednesday, March 31, 2021, at 8:30pm EST
CivilWarTalk Presents:
Dwight Sturtevant Hughes
author of
Unlike Anything That Ever Floated:
The Monitor and Virginia
and the Battle of Hampton Roads, March 8-9, 1862
In A Free Live Video Presentation
“Ironclad against ironclad, we maneuvered about the bay here and went at each other with mutual fierceness,” reported Chief Engineer Alban Stimers following that momentous engagement between the USS Monitor and the CSS Virginia (ex USS Merrimack) in Hampton Roads, Sunday, March 9, 1862. From flaming, bloody decks of sinking ships, to the dim confines of the first rotating armored turret, to the smoky depths of a Rebel gundeck—with shells screaming, clanging, booming, and splashing all around—to the office of a worried president with his cabinet peering down the Potomac for a Rebel monster, this dramatic story unfolds through the accounts of men who lived it.
Savas Beatie Today!
Lieutenant Commander Dwight Sturtevant Hughes graduated from the Naval Academy in 1967 and served twenty years aboard warships, on navy staffs, and with river forces in Vietnam. He holds an MA in Political Science and an MS in Information Systems Management. Dwight authored A Confederate Biography: The Cruise of the CSS Shenandoah (Naval Institute Press, 2015) and is a contributing author at the Emerging Civil War blog (www.emergingcivilwar.com). Hughes regularly writes and speaks on Civil War naval history (www.CivilWarNavyHistory.com).
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