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The Civil War at Sea (Paperback)
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Continuing in the vein of his Lincoln Prize-winning book Lincoln
and His Admirals, acclaimed naval historian Craig L. Symonds
presents a masterful history of the Civil War navies--both Union
and Confederate--and places them within the broader context of the
emerging industrial age.
Symonds begins with an account of the dramatic pre-war revolution
in naval technology--the advent of steam propulsion, the screw
propeller, and larger and more powerful rifled guns that could fire
explosive shells as well as solid shot. These extraordinary changes
were epitomized in the famous "Battle of the Ironclads"--one of the
great stories of the Civil War--pitting USS Monitor against the
larger and more heavily armed CSS Virginia (also known as
Merrimack). Symonds also offers an overview of Lincoln's blockade
of the South, a vast campaign involving as many as 500 ships and
100,000 men; discusses the fierce naval war for control of the
rivers in the West; and looks at the important siege of Charleston,
which would last three years and involve 40,000 men and sixty
warships. Symonds concludes with three key episodes from the end of
the war--the dramatic Battle of Mobile Bay, where Farragut
delivered his famous cry: "Damn the torpedoes Full speed ahead ";
the battle of Wilmington, where combined naval and army forces
successfully overran Fort Fisher, a giant earthwork fort called by
one historian "the mightiest fortress in America"; and the
remarkable cruise of the CSS Shenandoah, a round-the-world voyage
of 58,000 miles, during which she captured thirty-eight
prizes--mostly after Lee had surrendered, alas.
The Civil War at Sea illuminates a little-discussed and greatly
undervalued aspect of America's national conflict. Concise yet
comprehensive, this volume is a lively addition to the field of
naval history.
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