The Confederate Navy: The Ships, Men and Organization, 1861-1865 [Hardcover]

William N., Jr. Still (Editor)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 288 pages
• Publisher: US Naval Institute Press (November 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1557501289
• ISBN-13: 978-1557501288
• Product Dimensions: 11.9 x 10.1 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.7 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,980,683 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent As A Companion to Luraghi's Masterpiece, December 24, 2003

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This review is from: The Confederate Navy: The Ships, Men and Organization, 1861-1865 (Hardcover)

Although intended as a companion book to Lincoln's Navy: The Ships, Men and Organization, 1861-65 by Donald L. Canney, this book is also very useful in conjunction with A History of the Confederate Navy by Raimondo Luraghi, which is the definitive book on the CS Navy.

The book is organized by topics (such as shipbuilding, types of ships) and presents these topics in more detail that is generally found in Luraghi's book. While I was hoping that it would include a Jane's-like section with drawings or photographs of every ship, this book is well illustrated. (For even more illustrations see The Confederate Navy - A Pictorial History by Philip Van Doren Stern.)

Highly recommended.

16 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding! Definitive! A Triumph!, March 15, 1999

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This review is from: The Confederate Navy: The Ships, Men and Organization, 1861-1865 (Hardcover)

Dr. Still, the dean of Confederate naval historians, is the proud editor of this tour-de-force overview of the Confederate Navy. His contributors include Bob Holcombe of the Confederate Naval Museum, Dave Sullivan, well-known researcher of the Marine Corps in the Civil War, and virtually every authority on the Confederate Navy and the naval Civil War writing today. Well-coordinated, well-illustrated, well done! Small wonder that it's advanced by the Naval Institute Press, which has a tradition of promoting and publishing fine books.