Author: Sargent, Henry Jackson, Jr., foreword by Daniel Sargent,
Title: The Captain of the Phantom: the story of Henry Jackson Saragent, Jr. 1834-1862 as revealed in family letters.
Description: Mystic, CT, Marine Hist. Assn, 1967. G. As his letters unfold, Sargent's rise to his chosen rank becomes assured and his letters becomes shorter & less. descriptive and fewer in number, indicating the urgency he sensed as his career advanced. To sea at 17, a captain of a clipper ship at 24, died, lost at sea in 1862 at 28. Fading to edges of ft cover & spine.

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