Ironclad Captains Of The Civil War

Author : Myron J. Smith, Jr.
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781476631295

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Ironclad Captains of the Civil War by Myron J. Smith, Jr. Pdf

From 1861 to 1865, the American Civil War saw numerous technological innovations in warfare--chief among them was the ironclad warship. Based on the Official Records, biographical works, ship and operations histories, newspapers and other sources, this book chronicles the lives of 158 ironclad captains, North and South, who were charged with outfitting and commanding these then-revolutionary vessels in combat. Each biography includes (where known) birth and death information, pre- and post-war career, and details about ships served upon or commanded.

Author : Wlliam N. Still
Publisher : www.Militarybookshop.CompanyUK
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2010-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1907521682

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Ironclad Captains by Wlliam N. Still Pdf

The 1862 battle between the ironclads USS Monitor and the CSS Virginia (aka Merrimack) is rightly regarded as a key turning point in both the naval history of the American Civil War and world naval history. At a stroke, the wooden navies of the world were rendered obsolete by the unique craft. Despite the immense significance of the ships, however, comparatively little information is available about the six officers who commanded the Monitor during its brief history. "Ironclad Captains: The Commanding Officers of the USS Monitor" presents brief, carefully researched biographies of the six men who commanded the Monitor, ranging from John Worden, the man who fought his ship in the great battle, to John Payne Bankhead, who had to order the Monitor abandoned in sinking condition during a fierce storm off North Carolina's Outer Banks. Although none of these officers commanded the Monitor for very long (a mere four days in the case of Thomas Oliver Selfridge), these officers were involved in most of the major naval actions of the Civil War and participated in nearly every type of activity in which the Navy was involved in that five-year period. In short, their combined story constitutes a "case history" of the Union navy, as well as providing fascinating details of a career in the 19th century American navy.

Author : William Norwood Still (Jr.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Ship captains
ISBN : NYPL:33433044493447

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Ironclad Captains by William Norwood Still (Jr.) Pdf

Author : William Wood
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-16
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:8596547369660

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Captains of the Civil War: A Chronicle of the Blue and the Gray by William Wood Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Captains of the Civil War: A Chronicle of the Blue and the Gray" by William Wood. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : William Wood
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783368438975

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Captains of the Civil War - a Chronicle of the Blue and the Gray by William Wood Pdf

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Author : William Charles Henry Wood
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798662974470

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Captains of the Civil War by William Charles Henry Wood Pdf

States which claimed a sovereign right to secede from the Union naturally claimed the corresponding right to resume possession of all the land they had ceded to that Union's Government for the use of its naval and military posts. So South Carolina, after leading the way to secession on December 20, 1860, at once began to work for the retrocession of the forts defending her famous cotton port of Charleston. These defenses, being of vital consequence to both sides, were soon to attract the strained attention of the whole country. There were three minor forts: Castle Pinckney, dozing away, in charge of a solitary sergeant, on an island less than a mile from the city; Fort Moultrie, feebly garrisoned and completely at the mercy of attackers on its landward side; and Fort Johnson over on James Island. Lastly, there was the world-renowned Fort Sumter, which then stood, unfinished and ungarrisoned, on a little islet beside the main ship channel, at the entrance to the harbor, and facing Fort Moultrie just a mile away. The proper war garrison of all the forts should have been over a thousand men. The actual garrison-including officers, band, and the Castle Pinckney sergeant-was less than a hundred. It was, however, loyal to the Union; and its commandant, Major Robert Anderson, though born in the slave-owning State of Kentucky, was determined to fight.

Author : John V. Quarstein
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2007-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781614231554

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A History of Ironclads by John V. Quarstein Pdf

One of history's greatest naval engagements, the Battle of Hampton Roads, occurred on March 8 and 9, 1862. On the first morning, the Confederate ironclad the CSS Virginia, formerly known as the Merrimack, sank two Union wooden warships, proving the power of the armored vessels over the traditional sailing ships. The next morning, the Virginia engaged the Union ironclad USS Monitor to a draw in a battle that significantly altered naval warfare. It was the first engagement between ironclads and ushered in a new era of warship construction and ordnance. The 25, 000 sailors, soldiers and civilians who witnessed the battle knew then what history would soon confirm: wars waged on the waters would never be the same. The seemingly invincible Monitor and Virginia were experimental ships, revolutionary combinations of new and old technology, and their clash on March 9, 1862, was the culmination of over 2, 000 years of naval experience. The construction and combat service of ironclads during the Civil War were the first in a cascade of events that influenced the outcome of the war and prompted the development of improved ironclads as well as the creation of new weapons systems, such as torpedoes and submarines, needed to counter modern armored warships.

Author : William N. Still,United States. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 83 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Ship captains
ISBN : 0160035600

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Ironclad Captains by William N. Still,United States. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Pdf

Author : William Charles Henry Wood
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798662974357

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Captains of the Civil War by William Charles Henry Wood Pdf

States which claimed a sovereign right to secede from the Union naturally claimed the corresponding right to resume possession of all the land they had ceded to that Union's Government for the use of its naval and military posts. So South Carolina, after leading the way to secession on December 20, 1860, at once began to work for the retrocession of the forts defending her famous cotton port of Charleston. These defenses, being of vital consequence to both sides, were soon to attract the strained attention of the whole country. There were three minor forts: Castle Pinckney, dozing away, in charge of a solitary sergeant, on an island less than a mile from the city; Fort Moultrie, feebly garrisoned and completely at the mercy of attackers on its landward side; and Fort Johnson over on James Island. Lastly, there was the world-renowned Fort Sumter, which then stood, unfinished and ungarrisoned, on a little islet beside the main ship channel, at the entrance to the harbor, and facing Fort Moultrie just a mile away. The proper war garrison of all the forts should have been over a thousand men. The actual garrison-including officers, band, and the Castle Pinckney sergeant-was less than a hundred. It was, however, loyal to the Union; and its commandant, Major Robert Anderson, though born in the slave-owning State of Kentucky, was determined to fight.

Author : William Wood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1932109226

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Captains of the Civil War by William Wood Pdf

Author : William C H Wood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798624644175

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Captains of the Civil War by William C H Wood Pdf

Sixty years ago today the guns that thundered round Fort Sumter began the third and greatest modern civil war fought by English-speaking people. This war was quite as full of politics as were the other two-the War of the American Revolution and that of Puritan and Cavalier. But, though the present Chronicle never ignores the vital correlations between statesmen and commanders, it is a book of warriors, through and through. I gratefully acknowledge the indispensable assistance of Colonel G. J. Fiebeger, a West Point expert, and of Dr. Allen Johnson, chief editor of the series and Professor of American History at Yale. WILLIAM WOOD, Late Colonel commanding 8th Royal Rifles, and Officer-in-charge, Canadian Special Mission Overseas. QUEBEC, April 18, 1921.

Author : William Charles Henry Wood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798620514373

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Captains of the Civil War by William Charles Henry Wood Pdf

Sixty years ago today the guns that thundered round Fort Sumter began the third and greatest modern civil war fought by English-speaking people. This war was quite as full of politics as were the other two-the War of the American Revolution and that of Puritan and Cavalier. But, though the present Chronicle never ignores the vital correlations between statesmen and commanders, it is a book of warriors, through and through. I gratefully acknowledge the indispensable assistance of Colonel G. J. Fiebeger, a West Point expert, and of Dr. Allen Johnson, chief editor of the series and Professor of American History at Yale. WILLIAM WOOD, Late Colonel commanding 8th Royal Rifles, and Officer-in-charge, Canadian Special Mission Overseas. QUEBEC, April 18, 1921.

Author : William C H Wood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798624644144

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Captains of the Civil War by William C H Wood Pdf

Sixty years ago today the guns that thundered round Fort Sumter began the third and greatest modern civil war fought by English-speaking people. This war was quite as full of politics as were the other two-the War of the American Revolution and that of Puritan and Cavalier. But, though the present Chronicle never ignores the vital correlations between statesmen and commanders, it is a book of warriors, through and through. I gratefully acknowledge the indispensable assistance of Colonel G. J. Fiebeger, a West Point expert, and of Dr. Allen Johnson, chief editor of the series and Professor of American History at Yale. WILLIAM WOOD, Late Colonel commanding 8th Royal Rifles, and Officer-in-charge, Canadian Special Mission Overseas. QUEBEC, April 18, 1921.

Author : Wood
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1798262010

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Captains of the Civil War: A Chronicle of the Blue and the Gray by Wood Pdf

Sixty years ago today the guns that thundered round Fort Sumter began the third and greatest modern civil war fought by English-speaking people. This war was quite as full of politics as were the other two--the War of the American Revolution and that of Puritan and Cavalier. But, though the present Chronicle never ignores the vital correlations between statesmen and commanders, it is a book of warriors, through and through. I gratefully acknowledge the indispensable assistance of Colonel G. J. Fiebeger, a West Point expert, and of Dr. Allen Johnson, chief editor of the series and Professor of American History at Yale. WILLIAM WOOD, Late Colonel commanding 8th Royal Rifles, and Officer-in-charge, Canadian Special Mission Overseas.

Author : William C H Wood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798624644083

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Captains of the Civil War by William C H Wood Pdf

Sixty years ago today the guns that thundered round Fort Sumter began the third and greatest modern civil war fought by English-speaking people. This war was quite as full of politics as were the other two-the War of the American Revolution and that of Puritan and Cavalier. But, though the present Chronicle never ignores the vital correlations between statesmen and commanders, it is a book of warriors, through and through. I gratefully acknowledge the indispensable assistance of Colonel G. J. Fiebeger, a West Point expert, and of Dr. Allen Johnson, chief editor of the series and Professor of American History at Yale. WILLIAM WOOD, Late Colonel commanding 8th Royal Rifles, and Officer-in-charge, Canadian Special Mission Overseas. QUEBEC, April 18, 1921.