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Author: Howard Fuller Publisher: Conway Maritime Press ISBN: 9780851779805 Category : United States Languages : en Pages : 176
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'Navies and Naval Operations of the Civil War 1861-1865' provides an approach to understanding this key period of American history. It integrates an original narrative with quotations from documents and eyewitnesses, and reproductions of contemporary illustrations or photographs to provide an authoritative account of an historical event or topic.
Author: Howard Fuller Publisher: Conway Maritime Press ISBN: 9780851779805 Category : United States Languages : en Pages : 176
Book Description
'Navies and Naval Operations of the Civil War 1861-1865' provides an approach to understanding this key period of American history. It integrates an original narrative with quotations from documents and eyewitnesses, and reproductions of contemporary illustrations or photographs to provide an authoritative account of an historical event or topic.
Author: United States. Navy Department Office of the chief of naval operations. Naval history division Publisher: ISBN: Category : United States Languages : en Pages : 41
Author: United States. Navy Department Office of the chief of naval operations. Naval history division Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 149
Author: James M. McPherson Publisher: UNC Press Books ISBN: 0807837326 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 288
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Although previously undervalued for their strategic impact because they represented only a small percentage of total forces, the Union and Confederate navies were crucial to the outcome of the Civil War. In War on the Waters, James M. McPherson has crafted an enlightening, at times harrowing, and ultimately thrilling account of the war's naval campaigns and their military leaders. McPherson recounts how the Union navy's blockade of the Confederate coast, leaky as a sieve in the war's early months, became increasingly effective as it choked off vital imports and exports. Meanwhile, the Confederate navy, dwarfed by its giant adversary, demonstrated daring and military innovation. Commerce raiders sank Union ships and drove the American merchant marine from the high seas. Southern ironclads sent several Union warships to the bottom, naval mines sank many more, and the Confederates deployed the world's first submarine to sink an enemy vessel. But in the end, it was the Union navy that won some of the war's most important strategic victories--as an essential partner to the army on the ground at Fort Donelson, Vicksburg, Port Hudson, Mobile Bay, and Fort Fisher, and all by itself at Port Royal, Fort Henry, New Orleans, and Memphis.
Author: William N. Still Publisher: ISBN: Category : Confederate States of America Languages : en Pages : 280
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This comprehensive guide to the Confederate Navy, covers the ships and men, the organization and facilities, the strategy and tactics, and compiles the operations, including those on the Western rivers.
Author: Craig L. Symonds Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: 0199931682 Category : United States Languages : en Pages : 258
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"This volume covers the operational history of the Civil War navies--on both sides--in America's great national trauma from 1861 to 1865." -- page vii.
Author: Neil P. Chatelain Publisher: Savas Beatie ISBN: 1611215110 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 447
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This thorough account of the South’s efforts to hold the Mississippi River is “fast-paced, easy to read, and well supported by archival research”(The Civil War Monitor). Most studies of the Mississippi River focus on Union campaigns to open and control it, while overlooking Southern attempts to stop them. This book tells the other side of the story—the first modern full-length treatment of inland naval operations from the Confederate perspective. Jefferson Davis realized the value of the Mississippi River and its entire valley, which he described as the “great artery of the Confederacy.” This was the key internal highway that controlled the fledgling nation’s transportation network. Davis and his secretary of the navy knew these vital logistical paths offered potential highways of invasion for Union warships and armies to stab their way deep into the heart of the Confederacy, and had to be held. They planned to protect these arteries of rebellion by crafting a ring of powerful fortifications supported by naval forces. Different military branches, however, including the navy, marine corps, army, and revenue service, as well as civilian privateers and even state naval forces, competed for scarce resources to operate their own vessels. A lack of industrial capacity further complicated Confederate efforts and guaranteed the South’s grand vision of deploying dozens of river gunboats and powerful ironclads would never be fully realized. Despite these limitations, the Southern war machine introduced many innovations and alternate defenses including the Confederacy’s first operational ironclad, the first successful use of underwater torpedoes, widespread use of army-navy joint operations, and the employment of extensive river obstructions. When the river came under complete Union control in 1863, Confederate efforts shifted to its many tributaries, and a bitter, deadly struggle to control these internal lifelines. Despite a lack of ships, material, personnel, funding, and unified organization, the Confederacy fought desperately and scored many localized tactical victories—often at great cost—but failed at the strategic level. Written by a former Navy Surface Warfare Officer, this study, grounded in extensive archival and firsthand accounts, official records, and a keen understanding of terrain and geography, “very astutely gets to the heart of the main internal factors that lay behind the CSN's catastrophic failure to defend the strategic waterways of the Mississippi River Valley” (Civil War Books and Authors).
Author: Willis C. Humphrey Publisher: Arkose Press ISBN: 9781344630740 Category : Languages : en Pages : 714
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Author: Howard Fuller
Author: United States. Naval History Division
Author: Howard Fuller
Author: United States. Navy Department Office of the chief of naval operations. Naval history division
Author: United States. Navy Department Office of the chief of naval operations. Naval history division
Author: James M. McPherson
Author: Donald L. Canney
Author: William N. Still
Author: Craig L. Symonds
Author: Neil P. Chatelain
Author: Willis C. Humphrey