Dreams of ships, dreams of Julia
by Maureen Stack Sappey · 1998
A young engineering student leaves Harvard to help build an ironclad ship to defend the Union against Confederate naval forces, and is subsequently blinded in the Battle of Hampton Roads.
BlindFictionHistoryJuvenile fictionMerrimack (Frigate)Monitor (Ironclad)Naval operationsPeople with disabilitiesUnited States Civil War, 1861-1865