War on the Waters: The Union and Confederate Navies, 1861-1865
Although previously undervalued for their strategic impact because the 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
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War on the Waters: The Union and Confederate Navies, 1861-1865
Although previously undervalued for their strategic impact because the 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
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War on the Waters: The Union and Confederate Navies, 1861-1865

War on the Waters: The Union and Confederate Navies, 1861-1865

by James M. McPherson
War on the Waters: The Union and Confederate Navies, 1861-1865

War on the Waters: The Union and Confederate Navies, 1861-1865

by James M. McPherson

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Although previously undervalued for their strategic impact because the 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

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780807837320
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 09/17/2012
Series: Littlefield History of the Civil War Era
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 288
File size: 5 MB

About the Author

James M. McPherson taught U.S. history at Princeton University for forty-two years and is author of more than a dozen books on the era of the Civil War. His books have won a Pulitzer Prize and two Lincoln Prizes.

Hometown:

Princeton, New Jersey

Date of Birth:

October 11, 1936

Place of Birth:

Valley City, North Dakota

Education:

B.A., Gustavus Adolphus College (St. Peter, MN) 1958; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, 1963

Table of Contents

Introduction 1

1 Mobilizing for War 15

2 Establishing the Blockade 47

3 We've Got New Orleans 79

4 The River War in 1861-1862 111

5 The Confederacy Strikes Back 153

6 Nothing but Disaster 189

7 A Most Signal Defeat 218

8 Unvexed to the Sea 249

9 Ironclads, Torpedoes, and Salt, 1863-1864 276

10 From the Red River to Cherbourg 304

11 Damn the Torpedoes 337

Conclusion 365

Acknowledgments 369

Notes 373

Bibliography 415

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From the Publisher

Wonderfully written and researched. . . . Balanced, objective, and highly readable.—Howard Jones, University of Alabama

James McPherson's many admirers in the Civil War community will be thrilled that he has turned his keen eye and eloquent pen to the naval war. In this new, concise history of the war at sea, McPherson not only tells an important story well, he shows how the Union Navy, with only five percent of Union military assets, had a disproportionate impact on the war.—Craig L. Symonds, author of Lincoln and His Admirals

With all the narrative grace, original scholarship, and equal grasp of both big picture and telling detail, Civil War historian nonpareil James McPherson has provided his admirers with another authoritative entry in his roster of essential books. McPherson never argues that the Union Navy won the Civil War, but readers will argue that no Civil War library will ever be complete without this volume.—Harold Holzer, Chairman, Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Foundation

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