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The Civil War at sea / Craig L. Symonds.

Title
The Civil War at sea / Craig L. Symonds.
Author
Symonds, Craig L.
Publication
New York : Oxford University Press, 2012.

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Description
viii, 248 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Summary
"Naval historian Craig L. Symonds presents a ... history of the Civil War navies, both Union and Confederate, and places them within the broader context of the emerging industrial age. Symonds begins with an account of the dramatic pre-war revolution in naval technology -- the advent of steam propulsion, the screw propeller, and larger and more powerful rifled guns that could fire explosive shells as well as solid shot. These changes were epitomized in the famous "Battle of the Ironclads" ... pitting USS Monitor against the larger and more heavily armed CSN Virginia (also known as Merrimack). Symonds also offers an overview of Lincoln's blockade of the South, a vast campaign involving as many as 500 ships and 100,000 men; discusses the fierce naval war for control of the rivers in the West; and looks at the important siege of Charleston. Symonds concludes with three key episodes from the end of the war -- the dramatic Battle of Mobile Bay, the Battle of Wilmington, and the cruise of the CSS Shenandoah. The Civil War at Sea illuminates a little-discussed and undervalued aspect of America's national conflict."--Publisher description.
Subjects
Genre/Form
History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
The ships and the guns: Civil War navies and the technological revolution -- The blockade and blockade runners -- The war on commerce: the hunters and the hunted -- "Unvexed to the sea": the river war -- Civil War navies and the Siege of Charleston -- The end game: Mobile, Wilmington, and the cruise of the Shenandoah.
ISBN
  • 9780199931682
  • 0199931682
LCCN
^^2012006688
OCLC
777948477
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library