The Timby and the Monitor blog says this about Theodore Timby's grave:
"Theodore Ruggles Timby, brilliant inventor of the technology that revolutionized the United States' and world's navies, lies today in an unmarked grave on a remote, sparsely grassed hill in Oak Hill Cemetery, Washington, D.C.. It is the shame of the government of the United States of America and in part to the companion duplicity of one of the principle actors in this story, for the consummate failure to recognize this man, who was responsible in no small part for the preservation of that government at a critical time in its history. How did this happen?"
I would say this short blog is going to be a defense of Mr. Timby's good name.
Like I said, I had never heard of him before, nor had members of my Civil War Round Table when I asked them.
His name should be right up there with John Ericsson's when the name USS Monitor is mentioned.
--Old B-Runner
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