When his father is killed fighting for the Union in the War Between the States, thirteen-year-old Tom Carroll must take a job to help support his family.?He manages to find work at a bustling ironworks in his hometown of Brooklyn, New York, where dozens of men are frantically pounding together the strangest ship?Tom has ever seen.? A ship made of iron. Tom becomes assistant to the ship s inventor, a gruff, boastful man named Captain?John Ericsson.?He soon learns that the Union army has?very important?plans for this iron?ship called the Monitor. It is supposed to fight the Confederate "sea monster"--another ironclad--the Merrimac. But Ericsson is practically the only person who believes the Monitor will float.?Everyone else calls it "Ericsson s Folly" or "the iron coffin." Meanwhile,?Tom s position as Ericsson s assistant has made him a target of Confederate spies, who offer him money for information about the ship. Tom finds himself caught between two certain dangers: an encounter with murderous spies and a battle at sea in an iron coffin . ? ?
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