Item Number: L00026

Title: Ironclads and Big Guns of the Confederacy

Author: John M. Brooke (Journal) and George M. Brooke, Jr. (Editor)

Edition: Unknown

Price: $25

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Description:We have a handful of new copies (i.e. unused) of the written words of the great Confederate Chief of Ordnance, John Mercer Brooke. It is titled:
Iron Clads and Big Guns of the Confederacy
The Journal and Letters of John M. Brooke
Edited by George M Brooke, Jr.

To only know Brooke from his activities with the Confederate States is to only know part of the story. An early graduate of the US Naval academy he was instrumental in the charting the ocean floor and contributed to the route for the transatlantic cable. In 1861, Brooke resigned from the U.S. Navy to join the Confederate Navy. He was involved in the conversion of the frigate USS Merrimack into the ironclad CSS Virginia. He was also instrumental in the development of a new rifled gun for the Navy that became known as the Brooke rifle. In 1862, he was promoted to commander, and in 1863, to Chief of the Confederate Navy's Bureau of Ordnance and Hydrography, until the end of the war. He was instrumental in the organization and establishment of the Confederate States Naval Academy. After the war he became a professor at VMI and is now buried in Lexington, VA, the home of VMI.

This book is a collection of Brooke's letters and his journal. His grandson, George M. Brooke, JR gathered these papers and edited them into this book.

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