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A Quest for Glory - A Biography of Rear Admiral John A. Dahlgren (Paperback)
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A Quest for Glory - A Biography of Rear Admiral John A. Dahlgren (Paperback)
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To win glory and power, to be renowned throughout posterity-such
was the ambition that fueled John A. Dahlgren's controversial rise
to eminence during the Civil War era. While he ranks with the
foremost contributors to the American naval tradition and is known
as the "father of American naval ordnance", personal conflicts and
the lack of major victories at sea nearly obscured his historic
legacy. Chief of the Bureau of Ordnance in 1862, Dahlgren was
recognized as the top ordnance expert in America and was known
around the world. He achieved this reputation largely for inventing
the Dahlgren gun, the most powerful and reliable naval cannon of
its day and the standard armament on Union warships. But because
ordnance work did not yield the glory he so desperately desired, he
abandoned the post of bureau chief for a fighting berth. With the
help of friend Abraham Lincoln, he took command of the South
Atlantic Blockading Squadron--only to preside over the Navy's
greatest disappointment during the war, the failure to capture
Charleston. Drawing on Dahlgren's meticulously kept diaries and
records and recently uncovered family papers, author Robert
Schneller describes with a biographer's sensitivity and a
historian's perspective the admiral's many technical triumphs as
well as the plots, duels, intrigues, and betrayals that plagued
Dahlgren's life.
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