author
Eugene Winslow Watson
1843–1914
A U.S. Navy officer who witnessed one of the Civil War’s most famous naval clashes, he later helped preserve that history in print. His writing offers a direct link to the age of ironclads, seen through the eyes of someone who was there.
1 Audiobook
The Monitor and the Merrimac : Both sides of the story
by John Lorimer Worden, Samuel Dana Greene, H. Ashton Ramsay, Eugene Winslow Watson
About the author
Born in 1843 and later rising to the rank of rear admiral in the United States Navy, Eugene Winslow Watson served during the Civil War and is especially remembered for his connection to the battle between the Monitor and the Merrimac. Library and public-domain records consistently identify him as a naval officer as well as an author.
Watson is best known to readers for his contribution to The Monitor and the Merrimac: Both Sides of the Story (1912). In that volume, his section, often titled The Last of the Monitor, adds the testimony of an eyewitness to the sinking of the Monitor off Cape Hatteras, making the book valuable not just as history but as lived experience.
He died in 1914. For listeners interested in memoir, military history, and the human side of the Civil War at sea, Watson’s work stands out for its immediacy and its closeness to the events it describes.