Captain of the Tides Gunner Morgan
- ISBN-10
- 1733362681
- ISBN-13
- 9781733362689
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2020-10-23
- Authors
- Charles Morgan, Jacque Hillman
Description
Book description:In 1882, Charles "Gunner" Morgan, 17, shipped out from New Orleans as a 3rd class apprentice seaman, Navy No. 817. In 1898, he led the dive team pulling bodies from the USS Maine disaster, reported to President Theodore Roosevelt (then assistant secretary of the Navy), and became "The Man Who Began the Spanish-American War." The first enlisted man promoted to officer, he survived an explosion while working in Thomas Edison's Navy lab at Key West. Yet, he found time for love. He met Vivian, the sugar king of Havana's daughter, married and pregnant -- both situations temporary. She became his soul's safe harbor. In later life, he worked as a supervisor for Henry Flagler's Florida East Coast Railway to Key West and helped create the Cuba airports for Pan American Airways. Charles D. Morgan, Gunner's grandson, captures his grandfather's heroic life from 1865 to 1959 in the historical novel, "Captain of the Tides: Gunner Morgan," co-authored with Jacque Hillman.
