Retired engineer WILLIAM C. EMERSON is the great-grandson of George N. Bliss. He and Elizabeth C. Stevens edited a book of Bliss's Civil War letters, “Don't Tell Father I Have Been Shot at" (McFarl...view moreRetired engineer WILLIAM C. EMERSON is the great-grandson of George N. Bliss. He and Elizabeth C. Stevens edited a book of Bliss's Civil War letters, “Don't Tell Father I Have Been Shot at" (McFarland Press, 2018). He has written widely on naval history topics and lives in Rochester, New York.view less