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War on the Waters - The Union and Confederate Navies, 1861-1865, Large Print (Paperback, large type edition)
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War on the Waters - The Union and Confederate Navies, 1861-1865, Large Print (Paperback, large type edition)
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Although previously undervalued for their strategic impact because
the 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.
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