Lincoln Takes Command: The Campaign to Seize Norfolk and the Destruction of the CSS Virginia

A detailed history of one week during the Civil War in which the American president assumed control of the nation's military.

One rainy evening in May, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln boarded the revenue cutter Miami and sailed to Fort Monroe in Hampton Roads, Virginia. There, for the first and only time in our country's history, a sitting president assumed direct control of armed forces to launch a military campaign. In Lincoln Takes Command, author Steve Norderdetails this exciting, lit...