Four Years in the Confederate Navy
Author: William Stanley Hoole
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Published: 1964
Total Pages: 148
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Author: William Stanley Hoole
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Published: 1964
Total Pages: 148
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Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2012-02-01
Total Pages: 174
ISBN-13: 0820339385
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJohn 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
Published: 2012-09-17
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 0807837326
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlthough 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.
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Published: 1964
Total Pages: 147
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John Thomas Scharf
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Published: 1887
Total Pages: 924
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Philip Van Doren Stern
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Published: 1962
Total Pages: 264
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAt 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: W. F. Clayton
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Published: 1910
Total Pages: 132
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Raimondo Luraghi
Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 560
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKPushing 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: Frank J. Merli
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9780253217356
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA tale of intrigue about the attempts of the Confederacy to build a navy in Britain.
Author: David W. Shaw
Publisher: Sheridan House, Inc.
Published: 2005-09
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 1574092073
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDavid Shaw is the author of America's Victory and a number of other books. He lives in Maine.