USS Constellation on the Dismal Coast: Willie Leonard's Journal, 1859-1861

by William Ambrose Leonard

Today the twenty-gun sloop USS Constellation is a floating museum in Baltimore Harbor; in 1859 it was an emblem of the global power of the American sailing navy. When young William E. Leonard boarded the Constellation as a seaman for what proved to be a twenty-month voyage to the African coast, he began to compose a remarkable journal.

Sailing from Boston, the Constellation, flagship of the U.S. African Squadron, was charged...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611172896
• ISBN13: 9781611172898
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.3" x 9.0"