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Author : Frank J. Merli
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0253217350
A tale of intrigue about the attempts of the Confederacy to build a navy in Britain.
Author : Warren F. Spencer
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : History
ISBN : 081730861X
"A major contribution to Civil War and naval history". -- Journal of Southern History
Author : Russell Frank Weigley
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 662 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0253337380
Major new interpretation of the events which continue to dominate the American imagination and identity.
Author : United States. Naval History Division
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1140 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : United States
ISBN : MINN:31951D03744206Q
Author : James M. McPherson
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807837320
Although previously undervalued for their strategic impact because they 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.
Author : Mountague Bernard
Publisher : London : Longmans
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : History
ISBN : HARVARD:32044057504938
Author : Donald L. Canney
Publisher : Schiffer Military History
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 0764348248
This is the first book-length study devoted to the vessels of the Confederate Navy, including all types used during the conflict: ironclads (both domestic and foreign-built), commerce raiders, blockade runners, riverine and ocean-going gunboats, torpedo and submersible vessels, and floating batteries. The book emphasizes the development, construction, and design of these vessels using, where available, original plans, photographs, and contemporary descriptions. The author describes these vessels in context with wartime conditions as well as with the transitional naval technology of the era. Over 100 vessels are detailed, including more than 30 ironclads, both American and foreign built. Over 150 illustrations are included, many of which have not previously been published. Also included is a section on steam engine technology of the era.
Author : Anonymous
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 878 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2010-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781434411044
This volume includes the Confederate Navy Department Correspondence with Agents abroad, 1861-1865
Author : Joseph McKenna
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2010-03-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786458271
During the American Civil War, British-crewed warships harassed Union merchantmen, sinking a total value of more than $15,000,000 in ships and cargo. Considered pirates by the federal government, these ships and crew were at the center of a largely unknown but fascinating struggle between Commander James Dunwoody of the Confederate Navy, U.S. Ambassador Charles Francis Adams, and Consul Thomas H. Dudley. This history of British assistance to the Confederate Navy covers that story in full and provides a close look at the British seamen who manned warships and blockade runners.
Author : Francis Warrington Dawson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : United States
ISBN : 0807106895
First published seventeen years after the end of the Civil War, 'Reminiscences Of Confederate Service, 1861-1865, by Francis W. Dawson, is the only memoir by a British citizen who saw active service in both the Confederate navy and army.
Author : Andrew R. English
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476682761
Built in Birkenhead, England, from 1862 to 1865, the "Laird rams" were two innovative armored warships intended for service with the Confederate Navy during the Civil War. The vessels represented a substantial threat to Union naval power, and offered the Confederacy a potential means to break the Union blockade of the Southern coastline. During 1863, the critical year of the Confederacy's last hope of recognition by the British and French, President Lincoln threatened war with Britain if the ships ever sailed under Confederate colors. Built in some secrecy, then launched on the River Mersey under intense international scrutiny, the ships were first seized, and then purchased by Britain to avoid a war with the United States. These armored warships were largely forgotten after the Admiralty acquired them. Historians rarely mention these sister warships--if referred at all, they are given short shrift. This book provides the first complete history of these once famous ironclads that never fired a shot in anger yet served at distant stations as defenders of the British Empire.
Author : Saxon Bisbee
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780817319861
The development of steam propulsion machinery in warships during the nineteenth century, in conjunction with iron armor and shell guns, resulted in a technological revolution in the world's navies. Warships utilizing all of these technologies were built in France and Great Britain in the 1850s, but it was during the American Civil War that large numbers of ironclads powered solely by steam proved themselves to be quite capable warships. This book focuses on Confederate ironclads with American built machinery, offering a detailed look at marine steam-engineering practices in both northern and southern industry prior to and during the Civil War. It gives a contextual naval history of the Civil War, the creation of the ironclad program, and the advent of various technologies. The author analyzes the armored warships built by the Confederate States of America that represented a style adapted to scarce industrial resources and facilities.
Author : Craig L. Symonds
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199931682
Continuing in the vein of the Lincoln-prize winning Lincoln and His Admirals, acclaimed naval historian Craig L. Symonds presents an operational history of the Civil War navies - both Union and Confederate - in this concise volume. Illuminating how various aspects of the naval engagement influenced the trajectory of the war as a whole, The Civil War at Sea adds to our understanding of America's great national conflict. Both the North and the South developed and deployed hundreds of warships between 1861 and 1865. Because the Civil War coincided with a revolution in naval techonology, the development and character of warfare at sea from 1861-1865 was dramatic and unprecedented. Rather than a simple chronology of the war at sea, Symonds addresses the story of the naval war topically, from the dramatic transformation wrought by changes in technology to the establishment, management, and impact of blockade. He also offers critical assessments of principal figures in the naval war, from the opposing secretaries of the navy to leading operational commanders such as David Glasgow Farragut and Raphael Semmes. Symonds brings his expertise and knowledge of military and technological history to bear in this essential exploration of American naval engagement throughout the Civil War.
Author : Charles M. Hubbard
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2000-08
Category : History
ISBN : 1572330929
"Thoroughly researched . . . [Hubbard's] interpretation is solid, well supported, and touches all of the major aspects of Confederate diplomacy."--American Historical Review "As the first examination of the topic since King Cotton Diplomacy (1931), this work deserves widespread attention. Hubbard offers a convincingly bleak portrayal of the limited skills and myopic vision of Rebel diplomacy at home and abroad."--Virginia Magazine of History and Biography Of the many factors that contributed to the South's loss of the Civil War, one of the most decisive was the failure of Southern diplomacy. In this penetrating work, Charles M. Hubbard reassesses the diplomatic efforts made by the Confederacy in its struggle to become an independent nation. Hubbard focuses both on the Confederacy's attempts to negotiate a peaceful separation from the Union and Southern diplomats' increasingly desperate pursuit of state recognition from the major European powers. Drawing on a large body of sources, Hubbard offers an important reinterpretation of the problems facing Confederate diplomats. He demonstrates how the strategies and objectives of the South's diplomatic program--themselves often poorly conceived--were then placed in the hands of inexperienced envoys who were ill-equipped to succeed in their roles as negotiators. The Author: Charles M. Hubbard is associate professor of history at Lincoln Memorial University and executive director of the Abraham Lincoln Memorial Museum in Harrogate, Tennessee.
Author : William N. Still
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Confederate States of America
ISBN : UOM:39015039910206
This comprehensive guide to the Confederate Navy, covers the ships and men, the organization and facilities, the strategy and tactics, and compiles the operations, including those on the Western rivers.