ePub Human Rights and Wrongs: Slavery; Terror; Genocide by Helen Fein in History

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From Baltimore natives Lawrence Bopp and Stephen Bockmiller comes Showing the Flag: The Civil War Naval Diary of Moses Safford; USS Constellation; a new perspective on the Civil War and life in the navy in the mid-19th century. As the Civil War raged at home; naval yeoman Moses Safford toured the Mediterranean on the USS Constellation; dispatched in 1862 to "show the flag;" or defend American merchant shipping. An attorney and accomplished sailor before the war; Moses kept a diary in his seafarer’s way; leaving us one of the most detailed accounts of life aboard a Civil War warship known to exist.Published for the first time and including insightful annotations and biographical information; this personal journal documents life aboard a navy ship in a time of national turmoil. Although the diary was intended for his own edification and personal remembrance; Safford’s writing brings the reader back in time and place and opens a window on the past; allowing a view of Civil War naval life through the eyes of a literate and master seaman.