284 pages, map endpapers, cloth, dust jacket, very good. A novel about a U. S. Naval officer on blockade duty off the Carolinas in the first year of the Civil War. From the dust jacket (jacket by Jules Gotlieb) : "A marvelous yarn concerning young Mr. Caleb Pettengill of New England who commands a vessel in the Union Navy during the Civil War, whose flamboyant charm is irresistible to women, and who believes passionately not only in the Union cause but also in the revolutionary new uses of steam, ironclad ships, explosive shells and rifled guns. A lusty and exciting sea story that brings vividly to life, through he experience of one man and his ship, the birth pangs of the steam Navy and the trials of the men who manned it during an era that has never ceased to fire the imaginations of American readers. "

CALEB PETTENGILL LITERATURE MILITARY FICTION AMERICAN CIVIL WAR