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[ ix ] F i g u r e s a n d T a b l e s Figures 1.1 Gustavus Vasa Fox, assistant secretary of the Navy, 1861–65 / 17 2.1 Rear Admiral Francis Hoyt Gregory, general superintendent of ironclads , 1862–66 / 30 2.2 Chief Engineer Alban Crocker Stimers, general inspector of ironclads, 1862–64 / 30 2.3 Monitor turret showing 15-inch guns / 43 3.1 The Tippecanoe-class monitor Manayunk / 47 3.2 Map of the Cincinnati, Ohio area / 61 3.3 View of the Cincinnati waterfront, ca. 1865 / 62 3.4 Typical drawing for the harbor and river monitor program / 65 4.1 Side view of a Tippecanoe-class monitor / 74 4.2 Cross-section of the hull of a Tippecanoe-class monitor / 81 5.1 Admiral Samuel F. Du Pont’s attack on Charleston / 92 5.2 Effect of bent spindle / 97 5.3 Effect of shot on base of turret armor / 97 5.4 Side view of turret and pilot house of the Passaic-class monitor USS Montauk / 98 6.1 Ericsson’s design for a light-draft monitor, plan and longitudinal section / 106 6.2 Ericsson’s design for a light-draft monitor, plan, body plan, and transverse section / 107 6.3 Ericsson’s design for a light-draft monitor, transverse section through the engine room / 107 6.4 Stimers’s plan for the light-draft monitors / 110 6.5 Silhouettes of monitor classes / 112 6.6 The pilot house of the Tippecanoe-class monitor USS Manayunk / 119 7.1 Number of workers employed on Tippecanoe-class monitors / 132 7.2 Number of workers employed on monitors in Cincinnati / 133 8.1 The Tippecanoe-class monitor Mahopac in the Appomattox River, 1864 / 167 8.2 The Tippecanoe-class monitor Canonicus about 1907 / 168 9.1 Monitors at Cairo, Illinois, after the Civil War / 183 9.2 Cost overruns on ironclad contracts / 186 9.3 The Tippecanoe-class monitor Saugus ca. 1907 / 191 Tables 1 Price/delivery options for Passaic-class monitors / 35 2 Responses to the Navy Department advertisement of August 16, 1862, for iron vessels for river and harbor defense / 48 3 The Composite U.S. Consumer Price Index, 1860–1866 / 127 4 Extracts from N. G. Thom’s Record of Prices Paid by Miles Greenwood / 129 5 Wages from N. G. Thom’s Record of Prices Paid by Miles Greenwood / 135 x • Figures and Tables ...

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