Author: Robert a. Mattson Publisher: ISBN: 9780692258743 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 208
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An overview of naval actions in Florida in the American Civil War (the "War between the States"), including the men, ships and actions. Appendices include a listing of U.S. Navy warships which served on the Florida blockade and descriptions of places to visit in Florida and events to attend which cover the Civil War Navy in Florida.
Author: Adrienne Sachse Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson ISBN: 1611475791 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 158
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This is the firsthand account of a United States Marine during the American Civil War. Beside the average routine of shipboard life, Gregg experienced major battles and the hunt for Confederate raiders. Anyone who wants a better understanding of the navy during the Civil War, especially a scholar doing research, would appreciate this book.
Author: Alfred Thayer Mahan Publisher: CreateSpace ISBN: 9781499233759 Category : Languages : en Pages : 154
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The naval operations described in the following pages extended, on the seaboard, over the Gulf of Mexico from Key West to the mouth of the Rio Grande; and inland over the course of the Mississippi, and its affluents, from Cairo, at the southern extremity of the State of Illinois, to the mouths of the river.Key West is one of the low coral islands, or keys, which stretch out, in a southwesterly direction, into the Gulf from the southern extremity of the Florida peninsula. It has a good harbor, and was used during, as since, the war as a naval station. From Key West to the mouth of the Rio Grande, the river forming the boundary between Mexico and the State of Texas, the distance in a straight line is about eight hundred and forty miles. The line joining the two points departs but little from an east and west direction, the mouth of the river, in 25° 26' N., being eighty-three miles north of the island; but the shore line is over sixteen hundred miles, measuring from the southern extremity of Florida. Beginning at that point, the west side of the peninsula runs north-northwest till it reaches the 30th degree of latitude; turning then, the coast follows that parallel approximately till it reaches the delta of the Mississippi.
Author: Philip Van Doren Stern Publisher: ISBN: Category : United States Languages : en Pages : 264
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At the beginning of the Civil War, the Confederate Navy was a very small collection of nearly anything that would float -- mostly small, unmilitary vessels and a few captured Union ships; there was not one real warship in the fleet. The North had men-of-war and a large fleet of merchant ships that could be armed quickly. As a result, the North was soon able to blockade the Southern coast and capture port after port. But the South fought back ingeniously, sending agents to England and France to have the finest warships built, innovating such modern weapons as the torpedo, the submarine, and the armored warship -- all of which changed the nature of naval warfare.
Author: Raimondo Luraghi Publisher: US Naval Institute Press ISBN: Category : Confederate States of America Languages : en Pages : 560
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Pushing aside the long-held belief that the answers went up in flames when the Confederate Navy archives were torched during the evacuation of Richmond, Luraghi combed fifty archives in four countries and uncovered information that shattered prevailing myths about that service's contributions.
Author: David W. Shaw Publisher: ISBN: Category : United States Languages : en Pages : 272
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Burning or capturing more than twenty merchant vessels in less then three weeks, and switching ships several times to elude capture, Read's rampage caused widespread panic in Northern cities, made headlines in the major daily newspapers, and brought enormous pressure on Welles to "stop the rebel pirate." At one point there were nearly forty Union ships sent to hunt down Read in a cat-and-mouse game that finally led to his dramatic capture off the coast of Maine."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: Robert a. Mattson
Author: Adrienne Sachse
Author: United States. Naval History Division
Author: Warren F. Spencer
Author: Alfred Thayer Mahan
Author: William Watson Davis
Author: William M. Fowler
Author: Philip Van Doren Stern
Author: Raimondo Luraghi
Author: David W. Shaw