georgew
First Sergeant
- Joined
- Oct 1, 2010
- Location
- southern california
In thumbing through the dated entries in "Ironclads and Big Guns of the Confederacy" pg 51, I ran across part of the 30 November 1861 entry from Brooke's Journal that states "...Employed today revising specifications for an iron clad gunboat for the inland water of North Carolina by J.L. Kitchen..." Has anyone heard of this proposal? It is interesting to speculate if this had anything to do with the "Dismal Swamp" projects. I get the impression from the entries from the Brooke Journal that Brooke had a lot to do with the layout of the Virginia's casemate protection. He may have been the source of the rounded corners that appeared on Virigina (I), Georgia and the original layouts of the Dismal Swamp boats.