Oxford University Press, 1997. First Edition. NEW copy. Photographs, maps, notes, index, 240 pages. “Roswell Lamson was one of the bosdest and most skillful young officers in the Union navy. Second, in the class of 1862 at Annapolis, he commanded more ships and flotillas than any other officer of his age or rank in the service, climaxed by his captaincy of the navy’s fastest ship in 1864, the USS Gettysburg.”

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