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Author |
: William Stanley Hoole |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 148 |
Release |
: 1964 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:561190655 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (55 Downloads) |
Synopsis Four Years in the Confederate Navy by : William Stanley Hoole
Author |
: William Stanley Hoole |
Publisher |
: University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages |
: 174 |
Release |
: 2012-02-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780820339382 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0820339385 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (82 Downloads) |
Synopsis Four Years in the Confederate Navy by : William Stanley Hoole
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 |
: Raimondo Luraghi |
Publisher |
: US Naval Institute Press |
Total Pages |
: 560 |
Release |
: 1996 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:49015002641968 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (68 Downloads) |
Synopsis A History of the Confederate Navy by : Raimondo Luraghi
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 |
: James M. McPherson |
Publisher |
: UNC Press Books |
Total Pages |
: 288 |
Release |
: 2012-09-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780807837320 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0807837326 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (20 Downloads) |
Synopsis War on the Waters by : James M. McPherson
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 |
: Philip Van Doren Stern |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 264 |
Release |
: 1962 |
ISBN-10 |
: STANFORD:36105004532441 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (41 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Confederate Navy by : Philip Van Doren Stern
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 |
: John Thomas Scharf |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 924 |
Release |
: 1887 |
ISBN-10 |
: UVA:X002683168 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (68 Downloads) |
Synopsis History of the Confederate States Navy from Its Organization to the Surrender of Its Last Vessel by : John Thomas Scharf
Author |
: Donald L. Canney |
Publisher |
: Schiffer Military History |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2015 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0764348248 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780764348242 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (48 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Confederate Steam Navy 1861-1865 by : Donald L. Canney
This is the first book-length study devoted to the vessels of the Confederate Navy, including all types used during the conflict: ironclads (both domestic and foreign-built), commerce raiders, blockade runners, riverine and ocean-going gunboats, torpedo and submersible vessels, and floating batteries. The book emphasizes the development, construction, and design of these vessels using, where available, original plans, photographs, and contemporary descriptions. The author describes these vessels in context with wartime conditions as well as with the transitional naval technology of the era. Over 100 vessels are detailed, including more than 30 ironclads, both American and foreign built. Over 150 illustrations are included, many of which have not previously been published. Also included is a section on steam engine technology of the era.
Author |
: David W. Shaw |
Publisher |
: Sheridan House, Inc. |
Total Pages |
: 258 |
Release |
: 2005-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781574092073 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1574092073 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (73 Downloads) |
Synopsis Sea Wolf of the Confederacy by : David W. Shaw
David Shaw is the author of America's Victory and a number of other books. He lives in Maine.
Author |
: Tom Chaffin |
Publisher |
: Macmillan + ORM |
Total Pages |
: 489 |
Release |
: 2007-04-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780374707002 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0374707006 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (02 Downloads) |
Synopsis Sea of Gray by : Tom Chaffin
Assembled from hundreds of original documents, including intimate shipboard journals kept by Shenandoah officers, Sea of Gray is a masterful narrative of men at sea The sleek, 222-foot, black auxiliary steamer Sea King left London on October 8, 1864, ostensibly bound for Bombay. The subterfuge was ended off the shores of Madeira, where the ship was outfitted for war. The newly christened CSS Shenandoah then commenced the last, most quixotic sea story of the Civil War: the 58,000-mile, around-the-world cruise of the Confederacy's second most successful commerce raider. Before its voyage was over, thirty-two Union merchant and whaling ships and their cargoes would be destroyed. But it was only after ship and crew embarked on the last leg of their journey that the excursion took its most fearful turn. Four months after the Civil War was over, the Shenandoah's Captain Waddell finally learned he was, and had been, fighting without cause or state. In the eyes of the world, he had gone from being an enemy combatant to being a pirateāa hangable offense. Now fearing capture and mutiny, with supplies quickly dwindling, Waddell elected to camouflage the ship, circumnavigate the globe, and attempt to surrender on English soil. "A superb account of how the Confederate raider Shenandoah brought the American Civil War to the farthest reaches of the world." -- Nathaniel Philbrick, author of Mayflower and Sea of Glory
Author |
: W. F. Clayton |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 132 |
Release |
: 1910 |
ISBN-10 |
: UVA:X000740785 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (85 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Narrative of the Confederate Navy by : W. F. Clayton