The Battle Of Fort Fisher Civil War Jointness

Author : U. S. Army War College
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-10
Category : History
ISBN : 1519773137

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The Battle of Fort Fisher: Civil War Jointness by U. S. Army War College Pdf

This book analyzes one of the most exciting but least known chapters of the Civil War. Fort Fisher was the Confederate's largest coastal fortification and protector at the mouth of the Cape Fear waterway leading to Wilmington, North Carolina. The Union's mission was to secure Fort Fisher from its Confederate defenders to allow for the follow-on attack on Wilmington, the last remaining Confederate seaport. The Battle for Fort Fisher, a bloody battle fought during the period December 1864 through January 1865, was notably a joint operation conducted with Union Naval, Marine and Army forces. The loss of Fort Fisher cut off the final resupply line to the Army of Northern Virginia and sealed the final fate for the Confederacy.

Author : U. S. Army U.S. Army War College
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1511861894

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The Battle of Fort Fisher by U. S. Army U.S. Army War College Pdf

This book analyzes one of the most exciting but least known chapters of the Civil War. Fort Fisher was the Confederate's largest coastal fortification and protector at the mouth of the Cape Fear waterway leading to Wilmington, North Carolina. The Union's mission was to secure Fort Fisher from its Confederate defenders to allow for the follow-on attack on Wilmington, the last remaining Confederate seaport. The Battle for Fort Fisher, a bloody battle fought during the period December 1864 through January 1865, was notably a joint operation conducted with Union Naval, Marine and Army forces. The loss of Fort Fisher cut off the final resupply line to the Army of Northern Virginia and sealed the final fate for the Confederacy.

Author : LCDR Michael A. Reed
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782899457

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The Evolution Of Joint Operations During The Civil War by LCDR Michael A. Reed Pdf

History has demonstrated that amphibious assaults are among the most complex and challenging of all joint operations. The myriad of factors that evolved independently throughout the war did not become fully integrated until the winter of 1864-65. This thesis explores the maturation of joint amphibious operations during the U.S. Civil War, specifically through the assaults on Fort Fisher. This analysis will use modern joint doctrine as the framework to compare and contrast the two assaults. It will elaborate on how seaborne assaults differ from riverine assaults. Utilizing Fort Fisher as the focus develops an understanding of the interrelationship of these various factors and the challenges posed in their synchronization to achieve success. This study concludes that the operations reflected jointness, but also marked the emergence of modern amphibious assault concepts.

Author : Rowena Reed
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1993-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 080328943X

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Combined Operations in the Civil War by Rowena Reed Pdf

In his introduction John D. Milligan considers Reed's provocative thesis that General George B. McClellan's concept of a grand strategy would have ended the bloodshed sooner.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Unified operations (Military science)
ISBN : UFL:31262093105194

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Joint Force Quarterly by Anonim Pdf

Author : LCDR James J. May USN
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786253798

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Joint Operations In The North Carolina Sounds During The Civil War by LCDR James J. May USN Pdf

This study is a historical analysis of Union joint operations that occurred during the American Civil War in northeastern North Carolina. The study begins with a historical overview of joint operations then transitions into the events that occurred in northeastern North Carolina between February 1862 and June 1865. Joint operations in the sounds began with the assault of Roanoke Island in February 1862. This study documents the Roanoke Island operation and the missions that supported the capture of New Bern, Plymouth and Washington, North Carolina during 1862. Specific emphasis is placed on the difficulties encountered conducting joint riverine warfare in the restricted waters of North Carolina without the benefit of a unified commander. Although the concept of a unified commander was not utilized in the sounds of North Carolina, this study documents the maturation of the joint relationship that did exist. It further displays how the joint forces overcame the challenges of communications and both natural and manmade obstacles. Overall, this study shows how success in the waters of northeastern North Carolina was dependent on a joint effort but could have been more successful had a unified commander been appointed. Conclusions include present day application and considerations.

Author : Jack Bell
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9781574411638

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Civil War Heavy Explosive Ordnance by Jack Bell Pdf

The most up-to-date and definitive reference guide on Union and Confederate large caliber projectiles, torpedoes, and mines, profusely illustrated with more than 1,000 photographs of 360 specimens.

Author : Kevin Dougherty
Publisher : Casemate
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2010-04-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781935149507

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Strangling the Confederacy by Kevin Dougherty Pdf

A historian and Citadel tactical officer examines the Civil War’s naval conflicts to shed new light on the Union’s vital yet overlooked Anaconda campaign. A selection of the Military Book Club. While the Civil War is mainly remembered for epic land battles, the Union waged an equally important campaign at sea—dubbed “Anaconda”—to gradually deprive the South of industry, commerce, and resources. The Rebels responded with fast ships called blockade runners that tried to evade the Yankee fleets, while at the same time constructing fortifications that could protect the ports themselves. Ultimately, it was this coastal conflict that brought the Confederacy to its knees. In Strangling the Confederacy, historian and Citadel tactical officer Kevin Dougherty examines the Union’s naval actions from Virginia down the Atlantic Coast and through the Gulf of Mexico. The Union’s Navy Board leveraged superior technology, including steam power and rifled artillery, in ways that rendered the Confederate coastal defenses nearly obsolete. But when the Union encountered Confederate resistance at close quarters, the tables were turned—as in the failures at Fort Fisher, the debacle at Battery Wagner, the Battle of Olustee, and in other clashes. Offering a unique perspective, Dougherty concludes that, without knowing it, the Navy Board did an excellent job at following modern military doctrine. While the multitude of small battles that flared along the Rebel coast have been overshadowed by the more titanic inland battles, in a cumulative sense, Anaconda—the most prolonged of the Union campaigns—spelled doom for the Confederacy.

Author : David W. Kummer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Fort Fisher (N.C. : Fort)
ISBN : UCSD:31822038365425

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Fort Fisher, December 1864-January 1865 by David W. Kummer Pdf

Author : Joseph T. Glatthaar
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2002-12-31
Category : United States
ISBN : 1579583776

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The American Civil War by Joseph T. Glatthaar Pdf

Union military forces suffered momentary defeat followed by sustained success in the Western Theater during the second half of the American Civil War. Following the Union's defeat at Chickamauga, Ulysses S. Grant took command at Chattanooga and orchestrated a striking victory which paved the way for a Union advance against Atlanta, a confederate city second in importance only to Richmond. This book traces the events that surrounded the capture of Atlanta, followed by Sherman's famous campaign of destruction through the southern interior which culminated in April 1865 with the surrender of the last major Confederate field army at Durham Station, North Carolina.

Author : Rod Gragg
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2006-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807131527

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Confederate Goliath by Rod Gragg Pdf

P>The only comprehensive account of the Battle of Fort Fisher and the basis for the television documentary Confederate Goliath, Rod Gragg's award-winning book chronicles in detail one of the most dramatic events of the American Civil War. Known as "the Gibraltar of the South," Fort Fisher was the largest, most formidable coastal fortification in the Confederacy, by late 1864 protecting its lone remaining seaport -- Wilmington, North Carolina. Gragg's powerful, fast-paced narrative recounts the military actions, politicking, and personality clashes involved in this unprecedented land and sea battle. It vividly describes the greatest naval bombardment of the war and shows how the fort's capture in January 1865 hastened the South's surrender three months later. In his foreword, historian Edward G. Longacre surveys Gragg's work in the context of Civil War history and literature, citing Confederate Goliath as "the finest book-length account of a significant but largely forgotten episode in our nation's most critical conflict."

Author : Craig L. Symonds
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199931682

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The Civil War at Sea by Craig L. Symonds Pdf

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 : G. William Quatman
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780821445167

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A Young General and the Fall of Richmond by G. William Quatman Pdf

Despite his military achievements and his association with many of the great names of American history, Godfrey Weitzel (1835–1884) is perhaps the least known of all the Union generals. After graduating from West Point, Weitzel, a German immigrant from Cincinnati, was assigned to the Army Corps of Engineers in New Orleans. The secession of Louisiana in 1861, with its key port city of New Orleans, was the first of a long and unlikely series of events that propelled the young Weitzel to the center of many of the Civil War’s key battles and brought him into the orbit of such well-known personages as Lee, Beauregard, Butler, Farragut, Porter, Grant, and Lincoln. Weitzel quickly rose through the ranks and was promoted to brigadier general and, eventually to commander of Twenty-Fifth Corps, the Union Army’s only all-black unit. After fighting in numerous campaigns in Louisiana and Virginia, on April 3, 1865, Weitzel marched his troops into Richmond, the capital of the Confederacy, capturing the city for the Union and precipitating the eventual collapse of the Southern states’ rebellion. G. William Quatman’s minute-by-minute narrative of the fall of Richmond lends new insight into the war’s end, and his keen research into archival sources adds depth and nuance to the events and the personalities that shaped the course of the Civil War.

Author : David Dixon Porter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 868 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : United States
ISBN : YALE:39002007768774

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The Naval History of the Civil War by David Dixon Porter Pdf

Author : Adrienne Sachse,Wesley Moody
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781611475791

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The Diary of a Civil War Marine by Adrienne Sachse,Wesley Moody Pdf

The Diary of a Civil War Marine: Private Josiah Gregg is a rare firsthand account of a United States Marine during the Civil War, written within hours of the events described. Gregg enlisted as a private at the beginning of the war, and served as a shipboard Marine on the Vanderbilt as it hunted Confederate raiders in the Caribbean and Atlantic. He also served aboard the Brooklyn at the battles of Mobile Bay and Fort Fischer. Part war story and part travel log, Gregg tells a good story with the confident prose of a man who worked as a school teacher and a clerk before the war. Seen by only Gregg's descendants for the last 140 years, the diary entries have been edited to include notes that explain what might be unclear to a modern audience. Also included are brief histories of the ships and the events described in the journal, and eight black and white photographs that were found inside the journal.