It is the civil war, and Will Cushing has been fired from the military. The North's navy is too small, and the strongest fort in the North has been captured along with the Merrimack. The South races with the North to make a new type of ship: an IRONCLAD!!! Will the South rule the seas, or will "Peacemaker" Errickson's Moniter float?
-Bruce, 7th grade, Cambridge Street Upper School