Author: Raphael SemmesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Confederate States of America
Languages : en
Pages : 968
Book Description
Service Afloat; Or, The Remarkable Career of the Confederate Cruisers Sumter and Alabama, During the War Between the States
Author: Raphael SemmesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Confederate States of America
Languages : en
Pages : 968
Book Description
Confederate Raider
Author: John M. TaylorPublisher: Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Confederate Raider is the enthralling story of the Civil War as fought on the high seas by Raphael Semmes, the Confederacy's most famous and revered naval officer. Yet many of his Northern contemporaries considered the Yankee-hating Semmes nothing more than a pirate. In either guise, Semmes commanded the most successful sea raider of all time - the C.S.S. Alabama. During a two-year cruise, she took nearly a hundred Federal merchant vessels out of the war and became a household word on both sides of the Mason-Dixon Line. Her final battle, off the coast of France against the U.S.S. Kearsarge, was an epic clash befitting the last one-on-one duel of wooden ships. A commander who carried out his mission without being able to bring his ship into a Southern port and whose crew had no allegiance to the Confederacy, Semmes is a brilliant and compelling figure in American military history.
Raphael Semmes, Rear Admiral, Confederate States Navy, Brigadier General, Confederate States Army
Author: Caldwell DelaneyPublisher:
ISBN: 9780914334064
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Raphael Semmes, Rear Admiral, Confederate States Navy, Brigadier General, Confederate States Army
Author: Raphael SemmesPublisher:
ISBN: 9780914334057
Category : Admirals
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
Memoirs of Service Afloat
Author: Raphael SemmesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Confederate States of America
Languages : en
Pages : 864
Book Description
The Civil War at Sea
Author: Craig L. SymondsPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199931682
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
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.
War on the Waters
Author: James M. McPhersonPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 0807837326
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
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.
Recollections of a Naval Life
Author: John McIntosh KellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Two Years on the Alabama
Author: Arthur SinclairLife of Rear Admiral John Randolph Tucker
Author: James Henry RochellePublisher: Alpha Edition
ISBN: 9789356899520
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Life of Rear Admiral John Randolph Tucker, has been acknowledged as a major work throughout human history, and we have taken precautions to assure its preservation by republishing this book in a modern manner for both present and future generations. This book has been completely retyped, revised, and reformatted. The text is readable and clear because these books are not created from scanned copies.