Author: Sir Edward James ReedPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Armored vessels
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Our Iron-clad Ships
Author: Sir Edward James ReedPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Armored vessels
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Our Iron-Clad Ships
Author: E.J. ReedPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3375021380
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1869.
Our Iron-Clad Ships; Their Qualities, Performances, and Cost. With Chapters on Turret Ships, Ironclad Rams, Etc. ... With Illustrations
Author: Sir Edward James REEDPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Our Iron-Clad Ships
Author: E.J. ReedPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3846058025
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1869.
Dignity of Duty
Author: Erasmus Corwin GilbreathPublisher: Pritzker Military Museum and Library
ISBN: 0989792854
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Published 117 years after his death, the journals of the American soldier Erasmus Corwin Gilbreath provide a compelling vantage point by which to view contemporary American history. They tell, first and foremost, a tale of war in which there is no gloryonly carnage and death. Through Gilbreaths firsthand accounts we get a sense of what life was like during the Civil War, the Indian Wars, and the War with Spain from an accomplished field officer, rather than from high command. Gilbreath illuminates the true horrors of war in the 19th Century for soldiersboredom, fatigue, death, and crude medical care for the woundedand their families, as Gilbreaths wife and children followed him wherever his orders would lead, enduring the primitive conditions they found along the way. From his instrumental role in raising a company that would become part of the 20th Indiana Volunteer Infantry, to his death while serving with the 11th U.S. Infantry in Puerto Rico at the tail end of the SpanishAmerican War, Gilbreaths life exemplifies the dignity of his service and the importance he placed on duty to his nation. In his journals, Gilbreath paints a vivid picture of the turmoil and change that was 19th Century America. Passages such as the lyric firsthand account of the Battle of the Ironclads or his reconnecting with a fellow Gettysburg veteran in Chicago 21 years after the battle are beautifully written, and carry a personal and emotional gravity that are found in the best literary works. Gilbreath is one of Americas sons, a proud citizen soldier who helped to forge the United States, and we are truly fortunate that his legacy lives on in these pages.
Our Iron-Clad Ships; Their Qualities, Performances, and Cost
Author: Reed E. J.Publisher:
ISBN: 9780243765546
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Our Iron-Clad Ships
Author: Edward James ReedPublisher: Nabu Press
ISBN: 9781295764921
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
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Civil War Ironclads
Author: William H. RobertsPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801887512
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Honorable Mention, Science and Technology category, John Lyman Book Awards, North American Society for Oceanic History Civil War Ironclads supplies the first comprehensive study of one of the most ambitious programs in the history of naval shipbuilding. In constructing its new fleet of ironclads, William H. Roberts explains, the U.S. Navy faced the enormous engineering challenges of a largely experimental technology. In addition, it had to manage a ship acquisition program of unprecedented size and complexity. To meet these challenges, the Navy established a "project office" that was virtually independent of the existing administrative system. The office spearheaded efforts to broaden the naval industrial base and develop a marine fleet of ironclads by granting shipbuilding contracts to inland firms. Under the intense pressure of a wartime economy, it learned to support its high-technology vessels while incorporating the lessons of combat. But neither the broadened industrial base nor the advanced management system survived the return of peace. Cost overruns, delays, and technical blunders discredited the embryonic project office, while capital starvation and never-ending design changes crippled or ruined almost every major builder of ironclads. When Navy contracts evaporated, so did the shipyards. Contrary to widespread belief, Roberts concludes, the ironclad program set Navy shipbuilding back a generation.
Our Iron-Clad Ships; Their Qualities, Performances, and Cost. with Chapters on Turret Ships, Iron-Clad Rams, &C.
Author: Edward J ReedPublisher: Palala Press
ISBN: 9781359464897
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Reign of Iron
Author: James L. NelsonPublisher: Zondervan
ISBN: 0061857033
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
At the outbreak of the Civil War, North and South quickly saw the need to develop the latest technology in naval warfare, the ironclad ship. After a year-long scramble to finish first, in a race filled with intrigue and second guessing, blundering and genius, the two ships -- the Monitor and the Merrimack -- after a four-hour battle, ended the three-thousand-year tradition of wooden men-of-war and ushered in "the reign of iron." In the first major work on the subject in thirty-five years, novelist, historian, and tall-ship sailor James L. Nelson, acclaimed author of the Brethren of the Coast trilogy, brilliantly recounts the story of these magnificent ships, the men who built and fought them, and the extraordinary battle that made them legend.