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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Collection Reference Number | GLC02106 |
| From Archive Folder | Unassociated Civil War Documents 1861 |
| Title | John Ericsson to Munn & Company about an article on his invention, the ironclad ship |
| Date | 12 November 1861 |
| Author | Ericsson, John (1803-1889) |
| Document Type | Correspondence |
| Content Description | Written by Ericsson, the Swedish immigrant inventor responsible for building the first Union ironclad ship, to the Munn & Company as proprietors of the magazine "Scientific American." Writes that he is returning their article "on the subject of my battery, with some few typographical errors corrected." Pleased that they are putting the matter before their readers entirely on its own merits. File also has 2 pages torn from a bound volume of "Harper's Weekly." One is dated from January 1862 and the other from 29 March 1862 and both have articles on Ericsson. The January 1862 article has a series of images of the USS "Monitor." |
| Subjects | Science and Technology Military History Navy Maritime Ironclad Immigration and Migration Journalism Union Forces Civil War |
| People | Ericsson, John (1803-1889) |
| Theme | The American Civil War; Science, Technology, Invention; Arts & Literature; Naval & Maritime |
| Sub-collection | Papers and Images of the American Civil War |
| Copyright | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |
| Module | Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945 |