USS Constellation on the Dismal Coast : Willie Leonard's journal,1859-1861 / edited by C. Herbert Gilliland.
"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...
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