Civil War Times

IRON INNOVATIVE

his addition to the innovative series, edited by Chris Mackowski, is authored by a U.S. Naval Academy graduate, Vietnam War veteran, and Civil War naval historian. There are over a hundred contemporary prints and photographs, augmented by 20 brilliant diagrams of naval equipment created by J.M. Caiella and 11 impressive maps from artifacts, the world’s largest marine archaeological metals conservation project.

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