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Book Synopsis Mr. Lincoln's Navy by : Richard Sedgewick West
Download or read book Mr. Lincoln's Navy written by Richard Sedgewick West and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Mr. Lincoln's Navy (Classic Reprint) by : Richard Sedgewick West Jr.
Download or read book Mr. Lincoln's Navy (Classic Reprint) written by Richard Sedgewick West Jr. and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-11 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Mr. Lincoln's Navy M r. Lincoln's Navy has long been IN process and owes much to many scholars and friends. To all whose information, advice, and encouragement were helpful in the production of The Second Admiral, a Life of David Dixon Porter, 1813-1893, and of Gideon Welles: Lincoln's Navy Department, the writer is happy again to acknowledge grati tude, for these earlier books were spadework for the present one. Particularly is he grateful to Charles Lee Lewis, Professor Emeritus, U. S. Naval Academy, his first mentor in the field of naval history, and to Professor Louis H Bolander, librarian of the U. S. Naval Academy, retired, whose wide knowledge and cheerful assistance in research have informed many pages in this book. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author :Richard S (Richard Sedgewick) West Publisher :Hassell Street Press ISBN 13 :9781015248502 Total Pages :368 pages Book Rating :4.2/5 (485 download)
Book Synopsis Mr. Lincoln's Navy by : Richard S (Richard Sedgewick) West
Download or read book Mr. Lincoln's Navy written by Richard S (Richard Sedgewick) West and published by Hassell Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-10 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Book Synopsis MR Lincoln S Navy by : Richard S West
Download or read book MR Lincoln S Navy written by Richard S West and published by Andesite Press. This book was released on 2015-08-13 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Book Synopsis Life in Mr. Lincoln's Navy by : Dennis J. Ringle
Download or read book Life in Mr. Lincoln's Navy written by Dennis J. Ringle and published by US Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every aspect of the common sailor's life in the Union navy--from recruiting, clothing, training, shipboard routine, entertainment, and wages to diet, health, and combat experience--is addressed in this study, the first to examine the subject in rich detail. The wealth of new facts it provides allows the reader to take a fresh look at nineteenth-century social history, including issues like racial integration in the military. As he examines daily life in the Union navy, Dennis Ringle also calls attention to the enlisted sailor's enormous contributions to the development of the U.S. Navy as it moved from wood and sail to steam and iron. A marine engineer with more than twenty years of naval experience, Ringle describes the lives of the steam engineers whose work later proved critical to the success of the ironclad monitors and the development of the powerful predreadnought warships. His focus is on the sailors assigned to the western river vessels, the ships enforcing the blockade, and those dispatched to destroy Confederate commerce raiders. To reconstruct daily life, he draws on a large number of published and unpublished diaries, journals, and letters. To put the information in context, he compares the sailor's life to that of a soldier's, including health conditions to explain why, for example, fewer sailors died from disease than soldiers. Ringle's efforts to gain respect for the courageous Union sailors who helped save the nation are certain to bring them recognition, just as Bell Wiley's landmark studies Billy Yank and Johnny Reb did for the Civil War soldiers.
Book Synopsis Mr. Lincoln's Brown Water Navy by : Gary D. Joiner
Download or read book Mr. Lincoln's Brown Water Navy written by Gary D. Joiner and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2007-07-26 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Union inland navy that became the Mississippi Squadron is one of the greatest, yet least studied aspects of the Civil War. Without it, however, the war in the West may not have been won, and the war in the East might have lasted much longer and perhaps ended differently. The men who formed and commanded this large fighting force have, with few exceptions, not been as thoroughly studied as their army counterparts. The vessels they created were highly specialized craft which operated in the narrow confines of the Western rivers in places that could not otherwise receive fire support. Ironclads and gunboats protected army forces and convoyed much needed supplies to far-flung Federal forces. They patrolled thousands of miles of rivers and fought battles that were every bit as harrowing as land engagements yet inside iron monsters that created stifling heat with little ventilation. This book is about the intrepid men who fought under these conditions and the highly improvised boats in which they fought. The tactics their commanders developed were the basis for many later naval operations. Of equal importance were lessons learned about what not to do. The flag officers and admirals of the Mississippi Squadron wrote the rules for modern riverine warfare.
Book Synopsis Mr Lincoln S Navy - Primary Source Edition by : Richard S. West
Download or read book Mr Lincoln S Navy - Primary Source Edition written by Richard S. West and published by Nabu Press. This book was released on 2014-02 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
Book Synopsis Lincoln's Navy by : Donald L. Canney
Download or read book Lincoln's Navy written by Donald L. Canney and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A companion volume to Nelson's Navy and The Confederate Navy, this is a complete history of the Union Navy. As with both other works, the author looks not only at the ships and men, but also at the organization and facilities, the strategy and tactices, and gives a detailed resume of operations, both successful and failed.
Book Synopsis Mr. Lincoln's High-tech War by : Thomas B. Allen
Download or read book Mr. Lincoln's High-tech War written by Thomas B. Allen and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shows the part technology played in the North winning the Civil War over the South and how Lincoln appreciated technology after awhile.
Author :Clarence Edward Noble Macartney Publisher :New York : Funk & Wagnalls Company ISBN 13 : Total Pages :372 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (91 download)
Book Synopsis Mr. Lincoln's Admirals by : Clarence Edward Noble Macartney
Download or read book Mr. Lincoln's Admirals written by Clarence Edward Noble Macartney and published by New York : Funk & Wagnalls Company. This book was released on 1956 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biographies of Lincoln's Secretary of the Navy, the Assistant Secretary, and the nine most important officers of the Navy during the Civil War.
Book Synopsis Lincoln and His Admirals by : Craig Symonds
Download or read book Lincoln and His Admirals written by Craig Symonds and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-17 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abraham Lincoln began his presidency admitting that he knew "but little of ships," but he quickly came to preside over the largest national armada to that time, not eclipsed until World War I. Written by naval historian Craig L. Symonds, Lincoln and His Admirals unveils an aspect of Lincoln's presidency unexamined by historians until now, revealing how he managed the men who ran the naval side of the Civil War, and how the activities of the Union Navy ultimately affected the course of history. Beginning with a gripping account of the attempt to re-supply Fort Sumter--a comedy of errors that shows all too clearly the fledgling president's inexperience--Symonds traces Lincoln's steady growth as a wartime commander-in-chief. Absent a Secretary of Defense, he would eventually become de facto commander of joint operations along the coast and on the rivers. That involved dealing with the men who ran the Navy: the loyal but often cranky Navy Secretary Gideon Welles, the quiet and reliable David G. Farragut, the flamboyant and unpredictable Charles Wilkes, the ambitious ordnance expert John Dahlgren, the well-connected Samuel Phillips Lee, and the self-promoting and gregarious David Dixon Porter. Lincoln was remarkably patient; he often postponed critical decisions until the momentum of events made the consequences of those decisions evident. But Symonds also shows that Lincoln could act decisively. Disappointed by the lethargy of his senior naval officers on the scene, he stepped in and personally directed an amphibious assault on the Virginia coast, a successful operation that led to the capture of Norfolk. The man who knew "but little of ships" had transformed himself into one of the greatest naval strategists of his age. Co-winner of the 2009 Lincoln Prize Winner of the 2009 Barondess/Lincoln Prize by the Civil War Round Table of New York John Lyman Award of the North American Society for Oceanic History Daniel and Marilyn Laney Prize by the Austin Civil War Round Table Nevins-Freeman Prize of the Civil War Round Table of Chicago
Book Synopsis Mr. Lincoln's T-Mails by : Tom Wheeler
Download or read book Mr. Lincoln's T-Mails written by Tom Wheeler and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This “intriguing” look at the sixteenth president’s telegraph usage during the Civil War “revisits a familiar hero, but does so from an utterly new perspective” (Ken Burns). The Civil War was the first “modern war.” Because of rapid changes in American society, Abraham Lincoln became president of a divided United States during a period of technological and social revolution. Among the many modern marvels that gave the North an advantage was the telegraph, which Lincoln used to stay connected to the forces in the field in almost real time. No leader in history had ever possessed such a powerful tool to gain control over a fractious situation. An eager student of technology, Lincoln (the only president to hold a patent) had to learn to use the power of electronic messages. Without precedent to guide him, Lincoln began by reading the telegraph traffic among his generals. Then he used the telegraph to supplement his preferred form of communication—meetings and letters. He did not replace those face-to-face interactions. Through this experience, Lincoln crafted the best way to guide, reprimand, praise, reward, and encourage his commanders in the field. Written by a former FCC chairman, Mr. Lincoln’s T-Mails tells a big story within a small compass—both an elegant work of history and a timeless lesson in leadership. By paying close attention to Lincoln’s “lightning messages,” we see a great leader adapt to a new medium. No reader of this work of history will be able to miss the contemporary parallels. Watching Lincoln carefully word his messages—and follow up on those words with the right actions—offers a striking example for those who spend their days tapping out notes on their various devices. “Mr. Lincoln’s T-Mails shines. . . . an accessible jaunt through this formative American event.” —USA Today “Wheeler shows a Lincoln groping for a best-use of new technology and learning the limitations of the ‘killer app.’”—Booklist “Altogether captivating.” —Harold Holzer, author of Brought Forth on This Continent: Abraham Lincoln and American Immigration
Book Synopsis Lincoln's Admiral: The Civil War Campaigns of David Farragut by : James P. Duffy
Download or read book Lincoln's Admiral: The Civil War Campaigns of David Farragut written by James P. Duffy and published by New Word City. This book was released on 2015-04-07 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This vivid and impeccably researched book details the life and Civil War battles of Admiral David Farragut. It shines a spotlight and shares new details about the admiral's leadership of the mission to recapture the port of New Orleans from the Confederacy - a campaign historians consider one of the most daring in military history. Farragut is perhaps best known for his order to “Damn the torpedoes.... Full speed ahead." during the Battle of Mobile Bay, which has become a touchstone and rallying cry for the United States Navy. A sweeping and riveting telling of Farragut's career and campaigns, Lincoln's Admiral offers fascinating insights into the strategy and decisions of one of the greatest military leaders on the Civil War - and of all time.
Book Synopsis Mr. Lincoln's Army by : Bruce Catton
Download or read book Mr. Lincoln's Army written by Bruce Catton and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-11-03 with total page 519 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vivid account of the early battles, first in the Pulitzer Prize-winning trilogy: “One of America’s foremost Civil War authorities” (Kirkus Reviews). The first book in Bruce Catton’s Pulitzer Prize–winning Army of the Potomac Trilogy, Mr. Lincoln’s Army is a riveting history of the early years of the Civil War, when a fledgling Union Army took its stumbling first steps under the command of the controversial general George McClellan. Following the secession of the Southern states, a beleaguered President Abraham Lincoln entrusted the dashing, charismatic McClellan with the creation of the Union’s Army of the Potomac and the responsibility of leading it to a swift and decisive victory against Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia. Although a brilliant tactician who was beloved by his troops and embraced by the hero-hungry North, McClellan’s ego and ambition ultimately put him at loggerheads with his commander in chief—a man McClellan considered unworthy of the presidency. McClellan’s weaknesses were exposed during the Battle of Antietam, the bloodiest day in American military history, which ended in a stalemate even though the Confederate troops were greatly outnumbered. After Antietam, Lincoln ordered McClellan’s removal from command, and the Union entered the war’s next chapter having suffered thousands of casualties and with great uncertainty ahead. America’s premier chronicler of the nation’s brutal internecine conflict, Bruce Catton is renowned for his unparalleled ability to bring a detailed and vivid immediacy to Civil War battlefields and military strategy sessions. With tremendous depth and insight, he presents legendary commanders and common soldiers in all their complex and heartbreaking humanity.
Book Synopsis Lincoln's Darkest Year by : William Marvel
Download or read book Lincoln's Darkest Year written by William Marvel and published by HMH. This book was released on 2008-07-16 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A portrait of a pivotal chapter in the Civil War, “featuring scheming politicians, bumbling generals, and an increasingly disheartened Northern public” (Brooks Simpson, author of Ulysses S. Grant: Triumph Over Adversity, 1822–1865). In Mr. Lincoln Goes to War, award-winning historian William Marvel focused on President Abraham Lincoln’s first year in office. In Lincoln’s Darkest Year, he paints a picture of 1862—again relying on recently unearthed primary sources and little-known accounts to offer newfound detail of this tumultuous period. Marvel highlights not just the actions but also the deeper motivations of major figures, including Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, Jefferson Davis, George B. McClellan, Stonewall Jackson, and, most notably, Lincoln himself. As the action darts from the White House to the battlefields and back, the author sheds new light on the hardships endured by everyday citizens and the substantial and sustained public opposition to the war. Combining fluid prose and scholarship with the skills of an investigative historical detective, Marvel unearths the true story of our nation’s greatest crisis.
Book Synopsis Lincoln's Commando by : Ralph Joseph Roske
Download or read book Lincoln's Commando written by Ralph Joseph Roske and published by US Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This captivating book details the life of one of the Union navy's most heroic young officers and his involvement in the Southern blockade and the sinking of the ironclad Albemarle.
Book Synopsis Lincoln and His Cabinet (Classic Reprint) by : John Pugh Green
Download or read book Lincoln and His Cabinet (Classic Reprint) written by John Pugh Green and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-04 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Lincoln and His Cabinet President Polk to be Chief of the Bureau of Provisions and Clothing for the Navy, which place he held until the summer of 1849. When the question of slavery came to the front, there resulted a new align ment throughout the northern half of the country, and multitudes of independent men crossed over from a slavocratic and aristocratic Democracy to a new humani tarian and democratic Republicanism. The infusion of a great moral issue into politics inevitably changed the point of view of any man who felt the Puritan conscience strong within him, and in this way Mr. Welles ceased to be a Democrat and became a Republican. Moreover his old democratic belief in States Rights repudiated the Democratic move for the establishment of slavery in the terri tories, and he always favored a strict construction of the Federal powers, the preservation of individual rights, and the protection and safeguards of the law, even in the midst of the furious civil conflict. In 1856 he was defeated as Republican candidate for Governor, and about the same time entered upon an eight years' term of service as a member of the Re publican National Committee. He was chairman of the delegation from his State to the convention that nominated mr. Lincoln for the Presidency. Want ing a man from New England, mr. Lincoln took an ex-democrat, trained in public business, and who, as Mr. Morse says, had manifested his courage and the earnestness of his convictions by casting loose from his Old associates on the question of slavery, and had shown an aptitude for politics, a quality which mr. Lincoln himself possessed in a remarkable degree, and did not undervalue in others. There was no special reason why he should have been assigned to the Navy Department, unless it were that a certain flavor of maritime commerce and prowess still hung faintly about the wharves of New England. And it is rather delightful to note Mr. Welles' indignation as he refers to certain critics of the administration of his department, who are embarrassed by no military or naval teaching, when one recalls that this observation applies with equal justice and force to the Secretary of the Navy himself; but, as Mr. Morse says, he made a good Secretary of the Navy and an excellent diarist. And in comparing his notes with those of John Quincy Adams, it is clear that they were both fine examples of the moral and intellectual civilization of the New England of their times. But while they had the solid moralities, they were somewhat deficient in the gentler ones. They established a rigid system both for themselves and for others, and to ordinary mortals who seemed to fall below these standards, they dealt out Christian charity with much economy. But while Mr. Welles' judg ment was severe, it was never unfair nor malicious, and in the absence of humor we have the next most enlivening quality, an honest and hearty sarcasm. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.