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Book Synopsis The Confederate Steam Navy 1861-1865 by : Donald L. Canney
Download or read book The Confederate Steam Navy 1861-1865 written by Donald L. Canney and published by Schiffer Military History. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book-length study devoted to the vessels of the Confederate Navy, including all types used during the conflict: ironclads (both domestic and foreign-built), commerce raiders, blockade runners, riverine and ocean-going gunboats, torpedo and submersible vessels, and floating batteries. The book emphasizes the development, construction, and design of these vessels using, where available, original plans, photographs, and contemporary descriptions. The author describes these vessels in context with wartime conditions as well as with the transitional naval technology of the era. Over 100 vessels are detailed, including more than 30 ironclads, both American and foreign built. Over 150 illustrations are included, many of which have not previously been published. Also included is a section on steam engine technology of the era.
Book Synopsis Great Britain and the Confederate Navy, 1861-1865 by : Frank J. Merli
Download or read book Great Britain and the Confederate Navy, 1861-1865 written by Frank J. Merli and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tale of intrigue about the attempts of the Confederacy to build a navy in Britain.
Book Synopsis Civil War Naval Chronology, 1861-1865 by : United States. Naval History Division
Download or read book Civil War Naval Chronology, 1861-1865 written by United States. Naval History Division and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 1140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A History of the Confederate Navy by : Raimondo Luraghi
Download or read book A History of the Confederate Navy written by Raimondo Luraghi and published by US Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis War on the Waters by : James M. McPherson
Download or read book War on the Waters written by James M. McPherson and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2012-09-17 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Defending the Arteries of Rebellion by : Neil P. Chatelain
Download or read book Defending the Arteries of Rebellion written by Neil P. Chatelain and published by Savas Beatie. This book was released on 2020-08-25 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thorough account of the South’s efforts to hold the Mississippi River is “fast-paced, easy to read, and well supported by archival research”(The Civil War Monitor). Most studies of the Mississippi River focus on Union campaigns to open and control it, while overlooking Southern attempts to stop them. This book tells the other side of the story—the first modern full-length treatment of inland naval operations from the Confederate perspective. Jefferson Davis realized the value of the Mississippi River and its entire valley, which he described as the “great artery of the Confederacy.” This was the key internal highway that controlled the fledgling nation’s transportation network. Davis and his secretary of the navy knew these vital logistical paths offered potential highways of invasion for Union warships and armies to stab their way deep into the heart of the Confederacy, and had to be held. They planned to protect these arteries of rebellion by crafting a ring of powerful fortifications supported by naval forces. Different military branches, however, including the navy, marine corps, army, and revenue service, as well as civilian privateers and even state naval forces, competed for scarce resources to operate their own vessels. A lack of industrial capacity further complicated Confederate efforts and guaranteed the South’s grand vision of deploying dozens of river gunboats and powerful ironclads would never be fully realized. Despite these limitations, the Southern war machine introduced many innovations and alternate defenses including the Confederacy’s first operational ironclad, the first successful use of underwater torpedoes, widespread use of army-navy joint operations, and the employment of extensive river obstructions. When the river came under complete Union control in 1863, Confederate efforts shifted to its many tributaries, and a bitter, deadly struggle to control these internal lifelines. Despite a lack of ships, material, personnel, funding, and unified organization, the Confederacy fought desperately and scored many localized tactical victories—often at great cost—but failed at the strategic level. Written by a former Navy Surface Warfare Officer, this study, grounded in extensive archival and firsthand accounts, official records, and a keen understanding of terrain and geography, “very astutely gets to the heart of the main internal factors that lay behind the CSN's catastrophic failure to defend the strategic waterways of the Mississippi River Valley” (Civil War Books and Authors).
Book Synopsis Great Brtitain and the Confederate Navy 1861-1865 by : Frank John Merli
Download or read book Great Brtitain and the Confederate Navy 1861-1865 written by Frank John Merli and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Engines of Rebellion by : Saxon Bisbee
Download or read book Engines of Rebellion written by Saxon Bisbee and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2018-08-07 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The development of steam propulsion machinery in warships during the nineteenth century, in conjunction with iron armor and shell guns, resulted in a technological revolution in the world's navies. Warships utilizing all of these technologies were built in France and Great Britain in the 1850s, but it was during the American Civil War that large numbers of ironclads powered solely by steam proved themselves to be quite capable warships. This book focuses on Confederate ironclads with American built machinery, offering a detailed look at marine steam-engineering practices in both northern and southern industry prior to and during the Civil War. It gives a contextual naval history of the Civil War, the creation of the ironclad program, and the advent of various technologies. The author analyzes the armored warships built by the Confederate States of America that represented a style adapted to scarce industrial resources and facilities.
Book Synopsis The Confederate Navy by : William N. Still, Jr.
Download or read book The Confederate Navy written by William N. Still, Jr. and published by Conway Maritime Press. This book was released on 1997-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive guide to the Confederate Navy, covers the ships and men, the organization and facilities, the strategy and tactics, and compiles the operations, including those on the Western rivers.
Book Synopsis Civil War Chronology, 1861-1865 by : United States Navy Department. Naval Operations Office
Download or read book Civil War Chronology, 1861-1865 written by United States Navy Department. Naval Operations Office and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Ironclad and Iron Protected Vessels of the Confederate States Navy by : John W. Wallis
Download or read book Ironclad and Iron Protected Vessels of the Confederate States Navy written by John W. Wallis and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Confederate Navy by : Philip Van Doren Stern
Download or read book The Confederate Navy written by Philip Van Doren Stern and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At 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.
Book Synopsis Subject File of the Confederate States Navy 1861-1865 by : United States. National Archives and Records Service
Download or read book Subject File of the Confederate States Navy 1861-1865 written by United States. National Archives and Records Service and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion, Series II by : Anonymous
Download or read book Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion, Series II written by Anonymous and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 878 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume includes the Confederate Navy Department Correspondence with Agents abroad, 1861-1865
Book Synopsis Subject File of the Confederate States Navy 1861-1865 by : United States. National Archives and Records Service
Download or read book Subject File of the Confederate States Navy 1861-1865 written by United States. National Archives and Records Service and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Confederate Navy by : William N. Still
Download or read book The Confederate Navy written by William N. Still and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Ships of the Civil War, 1861-1865 by : Kevin Dougherty
Download or read book Ships of the Civil War, 1861-1865 written by Kevin Dougherty and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
