Author: Mary Josephine Mason RemeyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Life and Letters of Mary Josephine Mason Remey
Author: Mary Josephine Mason RemeyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Faces of the Civil War Navies
Author: Ronald S. CoddingtonPublisher: Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM
ISBN: 1421421372
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
Explore the human side of the Civil War through archival images and biographical sketches of Confederate and Union sailors. During the American Civil War, more than one hundred thousand men fought on ships at sea or on one of America’s great inland rivers. There were no large-scale fleet engagements, yet the navies, particularly the Union Navy, did much to define the character of the war and affect its length. The first hostile shots roared from rebel artillery at Charleston Harbor. Along the Mississippi River and other inland waterways across the South, Union gunboats were often the first to arrive in deadly enemy territory. In the Gulf of Mexico and along the Atlantic seaboard, blockaders in blue floated within earshot of gray garrisons that guarded vital ports. And on the open seas, rebel raiders wreaked havoc on civilian shipping. In Faces of the Civil War Navies, Civil War photograph collector Ronald S. Coddington focuses his skills on the Union and Confederate navies. Using identifiable cartes de visite of common sailors on both sides of the war, many of them never before published, Coddington uncovers the personal histories of each individual. These unique narratives are drawn from military and pension records, letters, diaries, period newspapers, and other primary sources. In addition to presenting the personal stories of seventy-seven intrepid volunteers, Coddington also focuses on the momentous naval events that ushered in an era of ironclad ships and other technical innovations. Taken collectively, these “snapshots” show that the history of war is not merely a chronicle of campaigns won and lost, it is the collective personal odysseys of thousands of individual men.
The Wardrobe of Gertrude Heim Remey, 1888-1932
Author: The Naval Aristocracy
Author: Peter KarstenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
U.S. Naval History Sources in the United States
Author: Martha L. CrawleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: The Pan American Book Shelf
Author: Men of Mark in America
Author: Merrill Edwards GatesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 622
Book Description
A Guide to Modern Manuscripts in the Princeton University Library: Collection descriptions and related indexes
Author: Princeton University. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Manuscripts
Languages : en
Pages : 1084
Book Description
To Master the Boundless Sea
Author: Jason W. SmithPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469640457
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
As the United States grew into an empire in the late nineteenth century, notions like "sea power" derived not only from fleets, bases, and decisive battles but also from a scientific effort to understand and master the ocean environment. Beginning in the early nineteenth century and concluding in the first years of the twentieth, Jason W. Smith tells the story of the rise of the U.S. Navy and the emergence of American ocean empire through its struggle to control nature. In vividly told sketches of exploration, naval officers, war, and, most significantly, the ocean environment, Smith draws together insights from environmental, maritime, military, and naval history, and the history of science and cartography, placing the U.S. Navy's scientific efforts within a broader cultural context. By recasting and deepening our understanding of the U.S. Navy and the United States at sea, Smith brings to the fore the overlooked work of naval hydrographers, surveyors, and cartographers. In the nautical chart's soundings, names, symbols, and embedded narratives, Smith recounts the largely untold story of a young nation looking to extend its power over the boundless sea.