Four Years in the Confederate Navy
Author | : William Stanley Hoole |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 148 |
Release | : 1964 |
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Author | : William Stanley Hoole |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 148 |
Release | : 1964 |
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Author | : William Stanley Hoole |
Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 174 |
Release | : 2012-02-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0820339385 |
John Low came to America from England in 1856 at the suggestion of his uncle, Andrew Low, a prosperous Savannah- Liverpool businessman. Just as he established himself in nautical businesses in Savannah the Civil War broke out. Low was ordered to England to help in the undercover task of buying, building, and convoying warships to the South. William Stanley Hoole traces Low's adventures in the service of the Confederacy. Low aided in the acquisition and delivery of the ironclad Fingal and the Florida. He served with Admiral Semmes aboard the famed raider Alabama and was involved in the capture, commissioning, voyage, and detention of the Tuscaloosa. His final task was to deliver the Ajax in the last days of the war.
Author | : James M. McPherson |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2012-09-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0807837326 |
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 | : Raimondo Luraghi |
Publisher | : US Naval Institute Press |
Total Pages | : 560 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : History |
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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 | : John Thomas Scharf |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 924 |
Release | : 1887 |
Genre | : United States |
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Total Pages | : 147 |
Release | : 1964 |
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Author | : R. Thomas Campbell |
Publisher | : White Mane Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
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Sea Hawk is an exceptional Civil War adventure story that brings human drama to the naval war.
Author | : Joseph McKenna |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 293 |
Release | : 2010-03-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0786458275 |
During the American Civil War, British-crewed warships harassed Union merchantmen, sinking a total value of more than $15,000,000 in ships and cargo. Considered pirates by the federal government, these ships and crew were at the center of a largely unknown but fascinating struggle between Commander James Dunwoody of the Confederate Navy, U.S. Ambassador Charles Francis Adams, and Consul Thomas H. Dudley. This history of British assistance to the Confederate Navy covers that story in full and provides a close look at the British seamen who manned warships and blockade runners.
Author | : Frank J. Merli |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780253217356 |
A tale of intrigue about the attempts of the Confederacy to build a navy in Britain.
Author | : Maxine T. Turner |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : History |
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By Richard T. Frey.