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Confederate Shipbuilding (Hardcover)
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Confederate Shipbuilding (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Maritime History
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A classic on the Confederacy's failure to build a successful navy
In Confederate Shipbuilding, William N. Still Jr. cogently
demonstrates the real grounds for the Confederacy's failure to
build a successful navy. The South's major problems with
shipbuilding concerned facilities, materials, and labor. To each of
these subjects the author devotes a chapter, and then concludes by
joining these problems to the larger issues of the Civil War. Still
argues that the Confederate navy's difficulties in construction
were mainly caused by military, geographic, and political
factors--not by lack of resources or the inefficiency of Southern
naval officers. Problems caused by internal dissension--states'
rights quarrels and interservice rivalries--were characteristic of
other theaters of the war; yet, Still shows, the navy was
particularly affected, being the stepchild of a war department that
was land-minded. This careful study therefore contributes not only
to our understanding of the failure of the Southern shipbuilding
program, but also to our knowledge of the reasons for the downfall
of the Confederate States of America.
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