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Author: 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: William Stanley Hoole
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: 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: 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.
Author: John Thomas Scharf
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Published: 1887
Total Pages: 924
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: J. Thomas Scharf
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Published: 1894
Total Pages: 1202
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Maxine T. Turner
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Published: 1988
Total Pages: 384
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Author: Walter E. Wilson
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2012-01-27
Total Pages: 370
ISBN-13: 0786488883
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAmerican naval hero and Confederate secret agent James Dunwoody Bulloch was widely considered the Confederacy's most dangerous man in Europe. As head of the South's covert shipbuilding and logistics program overseas during the American Civil War, Bulloch acquired a staggering 49 warships, blockade runners, and tenders; built "invulnerable" ocean-going ironclads; sustained Confederate logistics; financed covert operations; and acted as the mastermind behind the destruction of 130 Union ships. Ironically, this man who conspired to destroy the Union and kidnap its president later stood as the favorite uncle and mentor to Theodore Roosevelt. Bulloch's astonishing life unfolds in this first-ever biography.
Author: Joseph McKenna
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2010-03-08
Total Pages: 293
ISBN-13: 0786458275
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDuring 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: John M. Coski
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Published: 2005
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781932714159
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the first book to examine the importance of Confederate naval operations on the James River, and their significant (and yet largely ignored) impact on the war in Virginia. It is impossible to fully understand how and why the war unfolded as it did in Virginia (and indeed, the Eastern Theater) without reading this book.
