A Year on a Monitor and the Destruction of Fort Sumter - Alvah F. Hunter - Softcover Nap12 Drawing on hundreds of first-hand

Drawing on hundreds of first-hand accounts by Napoleon's supporters and opponents

their forces diminished--faced an overwhelming enemy invasion

Contains one 50mm base and themed insert

and the honor of their city-states

illuminating both the global challenge(the 'War on Terrorism') and small wars across the world in Afghanistan

A Year on a Monitor and the Destruction of Fort Sumter - Alvah F. Hunter - Softcover Nap12 Drawing on hundreds of first-handThis memoir begins with the sixteen year old Hunter's plaintive efforts to enlist in the Navy. At a time when the Union was about to announce its first conscription, young Hunter is told the Navy has no need for him. But he perseveres and is 'rewarded' by an appointment to the monitor Nahant as a wardroom boy. Hunter thus becomes an intelligent and articulate observer at the very bottom of the Navy's pecking order. As a novice to naval life, Hunter