Captain of the Tides Gunner Morgan

In 1882 Charles Gunner Morgan 17 shipped out from New Orleans as a 3rd class apprentice seaman Navy No. 817. Becoming a Navy team baseball player he knew the greats in American baseball. 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 Started the Spanish-American War. Known also as The Man Behind the Gun for his shooting prowess he was among the first enlisted men promoted to officer. He taught the Japanese how to fire the big guns in the Russo-Japanese War. He survived working in Thomas Edisons Navy lab at Key West. Yet he found time for love. He met Vivian the sugar king of Havanas daughter married and pregnant -- both situations temporary. She became his souls safe harbor. In later years he helped build the Florida East Coast Railway to Key West. As Maritime Inspector he surveyed and developed the South American airports creating Pan Am Airways. An American patriot he lived for the moment that the sunsets green fire on the seas horizon promised the dawn to come. Always he returned to the sea. Board the ships climb the rigging shoot the guns when America came to rule the seas. Discover the 93 years that defined Gunner Morgan. His grandson Charles D. Morgan discovered his grandfathers old sea chest and hidden in its base stacks of documents and letters that led the author on a lifetime journey to reveal his grandfathers legacy to America. Captain of the Tides Gunner Morgan is that legacy retold as an historical novel a riveting story of a young Navy seaman whose heroism captured the loyalty of Americans.