Paymaster William Keeler of the Monitor recognized Jeffers as a man of great "scientific attainment," but also saw him as "brutal, selfish & ambitious." "With Zeal and Intelligence" Captain Jeffers Commands the Monitor, is the first full-length biography of Commodore William N. Jeffers, a New Jersey native and acclaimed ordnance expert. Jeffers' forty years of service in the United States Navy are chronicled, spanning two wars,...
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