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

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Label

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

Title remainder

the Union and Confederate Navies, 1861-1865

Statement of responsibility

James M. McPherson

Creator

• McPherson, James M

Subject

• Confederate States of America, Navy
• United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Naval operations
• Marine
• Förenta staterna -- historia -- 1800-talet
• United States, Navy
• USA -- Südstaaten
• Sezessionskrieg
• Amerikanska inbördeskriget 1861-1865 -- sjöoperationer
• History
• Marine
• United States, Navy -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
• Sjökrig -- Förenta staterna -- 1861-1865
• Military operations, Naval
• Confederate States of America, Navy
• United States, Navy
• United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Campaigns
• USA -- Nordstaaten
• Confederate States of America, Navy -- History
• Sezessionskrieg
• 1861-1865
• United States
• American Civil War (1861-1865)
• Riverine operations
• Sydstaterna
• United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Riverine operations
• Military campaigns

Genre

• History

Language

eng

Summary

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. 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

Member of

• Littlefield history of the Civil War era

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

973.7/5

Government publication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

index present

LC call number

E591

LC item number

.M44 2012

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

The Littlefield history of the Civil War era