NMHS merchandise NMHS NECKWEAR Made of 100% silk fabric woven in Italy and sewn to high standards in the USA, our neckties, bowties and scarves are navy blue with the MHS logo woven in white, blue and gold. Mens ' Neckties. $45 + $5 s/h Bow tie (not shown). $35 + $5 s/h Women's scarves. Rectangular, 4" x 45", lined with navy silk. $35 + $5 s/h
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MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS Burgee. Nylon pennant with NMHS logo in royal blue and yellow on white background with red border. 22" x 12". Made in the USA. $15 shipping included Cloth Patch. Metallic gold braid on navy background, ship and sea embroidered in white and blue. 3" diam. Made in USA. $5 shipping included NMHS 1999, 2000 & 2001 Medallions. Circular 23/4' brass ornaments with our fl ags hip Ka iulani as she appears in our logo (1999), an ancient Roman ship (2000) or an East Indiaman (200 I). $5 shipping included. (NYS residents add appl icable sa les tax; for-
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REVIEWS ants, many influential residents were emotionally supportive of the Confederacy, a position often based on romantic images of Southern culture. The colonies' economic well-being, however, was much more closely linked to the Union. One of the key incidents addressed was the December 1863 seizure of a privately owned Union vessel, Chesapeake, by persons (many of them Mari times residents) claiming to have authority granted by the Confederate States. The seizure and its aftermath were surrounded by a political and diplomatic morass compounded by extralegal recovery actions by Union naval forces. The author's account does little to resolve the incident's inherent confusion . Marg uis 's book is well documented with abundant notes, but it is difficult to read. Like a pointillist artist using an arrangement of tiny dots rather than brush strokes to create an image, the author presents a carefully organized array of facts and anecdotes but doesn' t supply much of a narrative thread to tie them together. CAPTAIN HAROLD]. SUTPHEN
Kilmarnock, Virginia
USS New Ironsides in the Civil War, by William H. Roberts (Naval Institute Press, Annapolis MD, 1999, 188pp, illus, biblio, index, ISBN 1-55750-695-7; $49.95hc) "This book," according to the Preface, "describes the design, construction , and wartime career of the armored frigate USS New Ironsides, America's first seagoing ironclad and the on ly seagoing ironclad to see combat in the American Civil War. " She was the "other ironclad. " Whilemany know that the Union built ironclads like the Monitor, few are aware of the existence of a totally different kind of ironclad. Roberts details the choosing of a builder and shows the problems of material selection and procurement that attend the construction of the first vessel of a class (in this case also the only vessel of its class). He reviews the "political engineering," as Chief Engineer Stimers, General Inspectoroflronclads, called it, that led to the decision to build more ironclads of the Monitor type and not of the New Ironsides type. New Ironsiales played a major role in the blockade of Clharleston. H er top speed of about seven kmors limited her ability to chase blockadee runners on th e open sea, bur her 11 " gums gave her such tremendous SEA HISTrORY 97, SUMMER 200 1