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Farragut's Captain

Author : Peter Barratt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1483487954
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (834 download)

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Download or read book Farragut's Captain written by Peter Barratt and published by . This book was released on 2018-08-15 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Captain Percival Drayton played a central role in four of the key naval engagements of the American Civil War, and as a personal friend and trusted subordinate of Admiral David Glasgow Farragut and Rear Admiral Samuel Francis du Pont, Drayton made a vital contribution to the ultimate success of the Union Navy in the struggle to maintain the Union. As the son of a noted Jacksonian Unionist obligated to leave South Carolina for Philadelphia many years before the war, Drayton was the very embodiment of the romantic war between brothers. Captain Drayton was a highly literate and intelligent observer of the world around him and the people in it. And throughout the war, he maintained a constant flow of letters to naval colleagues and friends. His letters provide a captivating insight into his service and into the personalities of many Civil WarÐera figures, and so his lettersÑand his biographyÑstand as a primary record of the war at sea and of the collapse of the slave system on the South Carolina coast.

American State Papers

Author : United States. Congress
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1048 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book American State Papers written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 1048 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

American State Papers

Author : USA
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1016 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American State Papers written by USA and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 1016 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Papers of the Military Historical Society of Massachusetts

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Papers of the Military Historical Society of Massachusetts written by and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Papers and Discussions Presented Before the [Coal] Division

Author : American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1116 pages
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Download or read book Papers and Discussions Presented Before the [Coal] Division written by American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 1116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

War Papers Read Before the Commandery of the State of Wisconsin, Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book War Papers Read Before the Commandery of the State of Wisconsin, Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

South Carolina Goes to War, 1860-1865

Author : Charles Edward Cauthen
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9781570035609
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (356 download)

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Download or read book South Carolina Goes to War, 1860-1865 written by Charles Edward Cauthen and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1950 and long sought by collectors and historians, South Carolina Goes to War, 1860-1865 stands as the only institutional and political history of the Palmetto State's secession from the Union, entry into the Confederacy, and management of the war effort. Notable for its attention to the precursors of war too often neglected in other studies, the volume devotes half of its chapters to events predating the firing on Fort Sumter and pays significant attention to the Executive Councils of 1861 and 1862.

Enduring Truths

Author : Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022625738X
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (262 download)

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Download or read book Enduring Truths written by Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-09-21 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Runaway slave Sojourner Truth gained fame in the nineteenth century as an abolitionist, feminist, and orator and earned a living partly by selling photographic carte de visite portraits of herself at lectures and by mail. Cartes de visite, similar in format to calling cards, were relatively inexpensive collectibles that quickly became a new mode of mass communication. Despite being illiterate, Truth copyrighted her photographs in her name and added the caption “I Sell the Shadow to Support the Substance. Sojourner Truth.” Featuring the largest collection of Truth’s photographs ever published, Enduring Truths is the first book to explore how she used her image, the press, the postal service, and copyright laws to support her activism and herself. Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby establishes a range of important contexts for Truth’s portraits, including the strategic role of photography and copyright for an illiterate former slave; the shared politics of Truth’s cartes de visite and federal banknotes, which were both created to fund the Union cause; and the ways that photochemical limitations complicated the portrayal of different skin tones. Insightful and powerful, Enduring Truths shows how Truth made her photographic portrait worth money in order to end slavery—and also became the strategic author of her public self.

Clad in Iron

Author : Howard J. Fuller
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313345910
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (133 download)

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Download or read book Clad in Iron written by Howard J. Fuller and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2007-12-30 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work addresses many persistent misconceptions of what the monitors were for, and why they failed in other roles associated with naval operations of the Civil War (such as the repulse at Charleston, April 7, 1863). Monitors were 'ironclads'- not fort-killers. Their ultimate success is to be measured not in terms of spearheading attacks on fortified Southern ports but in the quieter, much more profound, strategic deterrence of Lord Palmerston's ministry in London, and the British Royal Navy's potential intervention. The relatively unknown 'Cold War' of the American Civil War was a nevertheless crucial aspect of the survival, or not, of the United States in the mid 19th-century. Foreign intervention—explicitly in the form of British naval power—represented a far more serious threat to the success of the Union blockade, the safety of Yankee merchant shipping worldwide, and Union combined operations against the South than the Confederate States Navy. Whether or not the North or South would be 'clad in iron' thus depended on the ability of superior Union ironclads to deter the majority of mid-Victorian British leaders, otherwise tempted by their desire to see the American 'experiment' in democratic class-structures and popular government finally fail. Discussions of open European involvement in the Civil War were pointless as long as the coastline of the United States was virtually impregnable. Combining extensive archival research on both sides of the Atlantic, this work offers an in-depth look at how the Union Navy achieved its greatest grand-strategic victory in the American Civil War. Through a combination of high-tech 'machines' armed with 'monster' guns, intensive coastal fortifications and a new fleet of high-speed Union commerce raiders, the North was able to turn the humiliation of the Trent Affair of late 1861 into a sobering challenge to British naval power and imperial defense worldwide.

Lincoln's Tragic Admiral

Author : Kevin John Weddle
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813923321
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (233 download)

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Download or read book Lincoln's Tragic Admiral written by Kevin John Weddle and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Weddle reveals that the admiral was the victim of a double irony: although Du Pont championed technological innovation, he outspokenly opposed the use of the new ironclads to attack Charleston. Only when his objections were overridden did his use of these modern vessels bring his career to an end. Weddle exposes this historical misunderstanding, while also pinpointing Du Pont's crucial role in the development of United States naval strategy, his work in modernizing the navy between the Mexican War and the Civil War, and his push for the navy's technological transition from wood to iron.".

House Documents

Author : United States House of Representatives
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 970 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book House Documents written by United States House of Representatives and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 970 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

House documents

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 730 pages
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Download or read book House documents written by and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Rebellion, Reconstruction, and Redemption, 1861–1893

Author : Stephen R. Wise
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 1643362828
Total Pages : 772 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (433 download)

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Download or read book Rebellion, Reconstruction, and Redemption, 1861–1893 written by Stephen R. Wise and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2021-12-20 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The continued history of Beaufort County, South Carolina, during and following the Civil War In Rebellion, Reconstruction, and Redemption, 1861-1893, the second of three volumes on the history of Beaufort County, Stephen R. Wise and Lawrence S. Rowland offer details about the district from 1861 to 1893, which influenced the development of the South Carolina and the nation. During a span of thirty years the region was transformed by the crucible of war from a wealthy, slave-based white oligarchy to a county where former slaves dominated a new, radically democratic political economy. This volume begins where volume I concluded, the November 1861 Union capture and occupation of the Sea Islands clustered around Port Royal Sound, and the Confederate retreat and re-entrenchment on Beaufort District's mainland, where they fended off federal attacks for three and a half years and vainly attempted to maintain their pre-war life. In addition to chronicling numerous military actions that revolutionized warfare, Wise and Rowland offer an original, sophisticated study of the famous Port Royal Experiment in which United States military officers, government officials, civilian northerners, African American soldiers, and liberated slaves transformed the Union-occupied corner of the Palmetto State into a laboratory for liberty and a working model of the post-Civil War New South. The revolution wrought by Union victory and the political and social Reconstruction of South Carolina was followed by a counterrevolution called Redemption, the organized campaign of Southern whites, defeated in the war, to regain supremacy over African Americans. While former slave-owning, anti-black "Redeemers" took control of mainland Beaufort County, they were thwarted on the Sea Islands, where African Americans retained power and kept reaction at bay. By 1893, elements of both the New and Old South coexisted uneasily side by side as the old Beaufort District was divided into Beaufort and Hampton counties. The Democratic mainland reverted to an agricultural-based economy while the Republican Sea Islands and the town of Beaufort underwent an economic boom based on the phosphate mining industry and the new commercial port in the lowcountry town of Port Royal.

The Best Station of Them All

Author : Maurice Melton
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817317635
Total Pages : 558 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book The Best Station of Them All written by Maurice Melton and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2012-08-30 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of the Confederate navy's Savannah Squadron, its relationship with the people of Savannah, Georgia, and its role in the city's economy. The author charts the history of the unit, the sailors (both white and black), the officers, their families, and their activities aboard ship and in port. The Savannah Squadron worked, patrolled, and fought in the rivers and sounds along the Georgia coast. Though they saw little activity at sea, the unit did engage in naval assault, boarding, capture, and ironclad combat. The sailors finished the war as an infantry unit in Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, fighting at Sayler's Creek on the road to Appomattox. The author concentrates on navy life and the squadron's place in wartime Savannah. The book reveals who the Confederate sailors were and what their material, social, and working lives were like.

Charleston Blockade

Author : John Bonnett Marchand
Publisher : Newport, R.I. : Naval War College Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Charleston Blockade written by John Bonnett Marchand and published by Newport, R.I. : Naval War College Press. This book was released on 1976 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Civil War Ironclads

Author : William H. Roberts
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801887512
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (875 download)

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Download or read book Civil War Ironclads written by William H. Roberts and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2007-08-30 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Honorable Mention, Science and Technology category, John Lyman Book Awards, North American Society for Oceanic History Civil War Ironclads supplies the first comprehensive study of one of the most ambitious programs in the history of naval shipbuilding. In constructing its new fleet of ironclads, William H. Roberts explains, the U.S. Navy faced the enormous engineering challenges of a largely experimental technology. In addition, it had to manage a ship acquisition program of unprecedented size and complexity. To meet these challenges, the Navy established a "project office" that was virtually independent of the existing administrative system. The office spearheaded efforts to broaden the naval industrial base and develop a marine fleet of ironclads by granting shipbuilding contracts to inland firms. Under the intense pressure of a wartime economy, it learned to support its high-technology vessels while incorporating the lessons of combat. But neither the broadened industrial base nor the advanced management system survived the return of peace. Cost overruns, delays, and technical blunders discredited the embryonic project office, while capital starvation and never-ending design changes crippled or ruined almost every major builder of ironclads. When Navy contracts evaporated, so did the shipyards. Contrary to widespread belief, Roberts concludes, the ironclad program set Navy shipbuilding back a generation.

West Wind, Flood Tide

Author : Venetia Friend
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 : 1612513514
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (125 download)

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Download or read book West Wind, Flood Tide written by Venetia Friend and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2013-11-12 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Immortalized by David Farragut's apothegm, "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead," the Battle of Mobile Bay remains one of history's great naval engagements, a contest between two admirals trained in the same naval tradition who once fought under the same flag. This new study takes a fresh look at the battle—the bloodiest naval battle of the Civil War—examining its genesis, tactics, and political ramifications. If the Confederacy had been able to deny the Union a victory before the presidential election, the South was certain to have won its independence. The North's win, however, not only stopped the blockade-runners in Mobile but insured Lincoln's re-election. Although the Union had an advantage in vessels of eighteen to four and an overwhelming superiority in firepower, it paid dearly for its victory, suffering almost ten times as many casualties as Franklin Buchanan's Confederate fleet. The author traces the evolution of the battle from the time Farragut took command of the West Gulf Blockading Squadron in February 1862 until the battle was fought on 5 August 1864. He then continues the narrative through the end of the war and explains how the battle influenced ship design and naval tactics for years to come.