Four Years In The Confederate Navy
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Four Years In The Confederate Navy
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Author : William Stanley Hoole
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1964
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Four Years In The Confederate Navy
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Author : William Stanley Hoole
language : en
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Release Date : 2012-02-01
Four Years In The Confederate Navy written by William Stanley Hoole and has been published by University of Georgia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-01 with History categories.
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.
Four Years In The Confederate Navy
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language : en
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Release Date : 1964
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A History Of The Confederate Navy
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Author : Raimondo Luraghi
language : en
Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
Release Date : 1996
A History Of The Confederate Navy written by Raimondo Luraghi and has been published by US Naval Institute Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with History categories.
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.
Recollections Of A Rebel Reefer
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Author : James Morris Morgan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-04-21
Recollections Of A Rebel Reefer written by James Morris Morgan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-04-21 with categories.
At the age of fourteen James Morris Morgan entered the United States Naval Academy. A year later, the American Civil War broke out and Morgan joined the Confederate navy as a midshipman on the CSS McRae. For the next four years "Little Morgan" would continue to fight alongside his Southern brothers as they attempted to break the Union blockade and defend the Confederacy. The McRae was outgunned by ironclads in early 1862 and young Morgan witnessed the ship and crew that he grown to love being destroyed by the Union navy. After befriending the Treasurer of the Confederacy, George Trenholm, he was given the commission to join the cruiser Georgia until 1864. Throughout this period he travelled across the world's seas, attempting to break the stranglehold that the Union had over the Southern states. Morgan's fascinating account of the war fought on a variety of ships provides insight into life in the Confederate navy for a young midshipman. Written much later in his life, Morgan's Recollections continues past the defeat of the South, documenting his interesting life joining the Egyptian Army, visiting France during the Franco-Prussian War, as an engineer in Mexico and consul-general in Australia. Morgan published this book in 1917 and he died in 1928.
Sea Wolf Of The Confederacy
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Author : David W. Shaw
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2004-03-24
Sea Wolf Of The Confederacy written by David W. Shaw and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-03-24 with History categories.
In June 1863, just days before the epic clash at Gettysburg ended the last rebel land invasion of the North, a small party of the Confederate Navy mounted a devastating series of raids on the New England coast, culminating in a battle off Portland, Maine. Veteran author David W. Shaw brilliantly re-creates this almost forgotten chapter of the Civil War in rich narrative detail drawn from accounts of the participants. At the center of the conflict were two men: the hotheaded young adventurer Charles W. Read, who resigned his commission as a Union midshipman to become a lieutenant in the Confederate Navy; and Secretary of the United States Navy Gideon Welles, a well-connected politician who ably oversaw the explosive growth of the fleet -- including the revolutionary ironclads -- during the war despite his lack of maritime experience. Serving aboard CSS Florida off the coast of Brazil, Read hatched a daring plan to sail a captured brig directly into the Union's home waters and wreak havoc on their shipping lanes. Burning or capturing more than twenty merchant vessels in less than three weeks, and switching ships several times to elude capture, Read's rampage caused widespread panic in Northern cities, made headlines in the major daily newspapers, and brought enormous pressure on Welles to "stop the rebel pirate." At one point there were nearly forty Union ships sent to hunt down Read in a cat-and-mouse game that finally led to his dramatic capture off the coast of Maine. Sea Wolf of the Confederacy brings to light this fascinating yet little known episode of the war, combining Shaw's flair for powerful storytelling with extensive research culled from contemporary newspapers, journals, and official war records. Taking readers to the heart of the action on the decks of the burning ships, Shaw offers a compelling portrait of the complex Read and an insightful new perspective on the divisions splitting North and South during this dark time in American history.
Gunsmoke Over The Atlantic
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Author : Jack Coombe
language : en
Publisher: Bantam
Release Date : 2008-12-18
Gunsmoke Over The Atlantic written by Jack Coombe and has been published by Bantam this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-12-18 with History categories.
On April 12, 1861, the Civil War began when shots were fired on an unfinished fort in Charleston Harbor. From that thunderous opening salvo, the naval battles to control the Atlantic coast that followed–daring, savage, and often deadly–were not only crucial in determining the outcome of the war and the fate of a nation, but would change the face of naval warfare forever. GUNSMOKE OVER THE ATLANTIC Historian Jack D Coombe, author of the critically acclaimed Thunder Along the Mississippi and Gunfire Around the Gulf, combines brilliant research with a novelist’s flair for re-creation to put us directly into the action of the Civil War on river, on shore, and at sea. In this vivid account, we experience the soul-gnawing terror of a bombardment, the claustrophobic confines of a still-unproven submarine, and the smoke-choked chaos of a harbor in the grips of a full-bore naval engagement between two desperate enemies. Coombe focuses on the Civil War as it was fought along the Atlantic coast, a fierce contest of blockaders and blockade-runners, ironclads, wood-hulled battleships, land cannon, submarines, and the first underwater antiship weapons. For the North, the challenge was to implement a blockade over 3,500 miles of Confederate coastline, from Virginia to Texas. To do so, they would have to modernize an ineffective and outdated U.S. Navy fallen into incompetence and disrepair. For the South, the challenge was to create a fledgling navy from whatever meager resources were at hand. The Confederacy patched together a navy of river runners and converted battleships, turned cornfields into shipyards, and put the first ironclad battleship into action. And it was the South that introduced the new concept of underwater weaponry, sending spar torpedoes, mines, submarines–and a few incredibly brave men willing to deploy them–into battle against the North. Gunsmoke over the Atlantic chronicles the key engagements, from the Monitor and the Virginia dueling at Hampton Roads to the ill-fated campaign against Fort Fisher. Along the way, we meet a remarkable cast of naval strategists and warriors on both sides of the battle, witness the crucial, often deadly role played by the weather and the sea itself, and get a vivid view of such important events as the first amphibious landing in history, at Cape Hatteras in 1861. An important work for students of the Civil War and of naval history, this book fills in missing pieces of America’s most tragic war and shows why, when the guns finally fell silent, a new era had begun. Four years after the fall of Fort Sumter, a once divided country had the beginnings of the most powerful navy in the world.
War On The Waters
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Author : James M. McPherson
language : en
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Release Date : 2012-09-17
War On The Waters written by James M. McPherson and has been published by UNC Press Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-17 with History categories.
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.
Confederate Military History The Confederate Navy
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Author : William H. Parker
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date :
Confederate Military History The Confederate Navy written by William H. Parker and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with categories.
A Narrative Of The Confederate Navy
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Author : W. F. Clayton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1910
A Narrative Of The Confederate Navy written by W. F. Clayton and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1910 with Confederate States of America categories.