Army were dying gloriously on battlefields across the continent, and their sacrifice was earning them a permanent place in the American pantheon of heroes. He feared that while the sailors and marines signed up for guts and glory, they would have an easy time of it. But that was part of the problem: “There isn’t even danger enough to give us any glory.” Keeler’s distress was that he and his crewmates’ efforts would go unrecognized. William Frederick Keeler, Acting Paymaster of the USS Monitor felt perfectly safe in the new ironclad. Navy and Marine Casualties in the Civil War, Part 1 Posted on: May 19th, 2021 Museum members support scholarship like this. “There isn’t even danger enough to give us any glory”: U.S.
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