When poet Fannie Toyne talked about her father, Charles Brother, which was hardly ever, she said her earliestbrmemory was being thrown out a window. pWhen Civil War Marine Charles Brother talked about the boys, which was often, he talked of the pursuit of that prize ship and the Battle of Mobile Bay when Admiral Farragut reportedly cried out, Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead! pDrenched in history and sea salt, biThe Boys of Bathib is a saga of sacrifice and loyalty, exhibiting thebrfew and proud men of rare, high spirit the first to go in, not flinching for canon, shipwreck, or mines. pCharles Brother wrote of life in Bath, New York, and in the barracks in Boston and Brooklyn, the New York Draft Riots, gunnery, targets, storms, and drilling with terrific shipmates-men who were agile and ready to fly in the ropes and through life-his fraternity. His story is about the bloody correction of the nineteenth century, made by grandsons of slave owners, a story relevant only to those who k