Publisher's Synopsis
Title: The Yankee middy, or, The adventures of a naval officer: a story of the Great Rebellion.Author: Oliver OpticPublisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more.Sabin Americana offers an up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere, encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts, newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and more.Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of original works are available via print-on-demand, making them readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars, and readers of all ages.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++SourceLibrary: Huntington LibraryDocumentID: SABCP03766800CollectionID: CTRG01-B3350PublicationDate: 18660101SourceBibCitation: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to AmericaNotes: "'The Yankee middy' is a sequel to 'The sailor boy, ' and traces the career of Jack Somers, as an officer, from the Naval Academy to his promotion to the rank of ensign. ... The author is again indebted to his friend, Ensign Francis L. Harris, not only for verbal details, but for the use of charts, diagrams, and works relating to the navy. The text books of the Naval Academy have been constantly at hand during the preparation of the volume."--Pref., signed by William T. Adams. Added, engr. t.p. Plates engraved on wood; signed by John Andrew, Charles A. Barry, Nathan Brown and "Champney" (i.e., W.L. Champney?)Collation: 332 p., [4] leaves of plates; 18 cm
