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A Quest for Glory - A Biography of Rear Admiral John A. Dahlgren (Hardcover)
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A Quest for Glory - A Biography of Rear Admiral John A. Dahlgren (Hardcover)
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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. This rich, balanced portrait examines in exhaustive detail
Dahlgren's quixotic, frustrating quest. 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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