Author: David Dixon PorterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 858
Book Description
The Naval History of the Civil War
Author: David Dixon PorterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 858
Book Description
War on the Waters
Author: James M. McPhersonPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 0807837326
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
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.
Naval History. Civil War, 1861-65
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hampton Roads, Battle of, Va., 1862
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
A History of the Confederate Navy
Author: Raimondo LuraghiPublisher: US Naval Institute Press
ISBN:
Category : Confederate States of America
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
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.
Vicksburg
Author: Donald L. MillerPublisher: Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 1451641370
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description
Winner of the Civil War Round Table of New York’s Fletcher Pratt Literary Award Winner of the Austin Civil War Round Table’s Daniel M. & Marilyn W. Laney Book Prize Winner of an Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing Award “A superb account” (The Wall Street Journal) of the longest and most decisive military campaign of the Civil War in Vicksburg, Mississippi, which opened the Mississippi River, split the Confederacy, freed tens of thousands of slaves, and made Ulysses S. Grant the most important general of the war. Vicksburg, Mississippi, was the last stronghold of the Confederacy on the Mississippi River. It prevented the Union from using the river for shipping between the Union-controlled Midwest and New Orleans and the Gulf of Mexico. The Union navy tried to take Vicksburg, which sat on a high bluff overlooking the river, but couldn’t do it. It took Grant’s army and Admiral David Porter’s navy to successfully invade Mississippi and lay siege to Vicksburg, forcing the city to surrender. In this “elegant…enlightening…well-researched and well-told” (Publishers Weekly) work, Donald L. Miller tells the full story of this year-long campaign to win the city “with probing intelligence and irresistible passion” (Booklist). He brings to life all the drama, characters, and significance of Vicksburg, a historic moment that rivals any war story in history. In the course of the campaign, tens of thousands of slaves fled to the Union lines, where more than twenty thousand became soldiers, while others seized the plantations they had been forced to work on, destroying the economy of a large part of Mississippi and creating a social revolution. With Vicksburg “Miller has produced a model work that ties together military and social history” (Civil War Times). Vicksburg solidified Grant’s reputation as the Union’s most capable general. Today no general would ever be permitted to fail as often as Grant did, but ultimately he succeeded in what he himself called the most important battle of the war—the one that all but sealed the fate of the Confederacy.
The Naval History of the Civil War
Author: David Dixon PorterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 868
Book Description
The Civil War at Sea
Author: Craig L. SymondsPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199931682
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
"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.
Naval History. Civil War, 1861-65
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hampton Roads, Battle of, Va., 1862
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Civil War Naval Chronology, 1861-1865
Author: United States. Naval History DivisionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Part IV of the Civil War Naval Chronology - a summary of significant events from 1861-1865.
Divided Waters
Author: Ivan MusicantPublisher: Booksales
ISBN: 9780785812104
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
A military history of the naval aspects of the Civil War, discussing the Union's goal of capturing Confederate ports and the South's determination to break the blockade.