1897. Part four of four. With more than four hundred illustrations maps and diagrams. Contents: The State of the Navy in 1859; Blockading the Southern Ports; Loss of the Norfolk Navy Yard; A Story of Confederate Privateers; The Fort of Hatteras Inlet Taken; Along Shore in the Gulf of Mexico; Story of the Trent Affair; The Capture of Port Royal; The Monitor and the Merrimac; First Battle Between Ironclads; With the Mississippi Gunboats; Farragut at New Orleans; Farragut at Mobile; Tales of the Confederate Cruisers; The Albemarle and Cushing; The Navy at Charleston; Capture of Fort Fisher; and Story of the New Navy. Other volumes in this set are ISBN(s): 1417919949, 1417918675, 1417919957.
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FROM the point of view of a naval seaman it was a far cry from the first war in defence of the nation's life to the last one-so far, indeed, that all the progress made in the construction of ships of war from the time when men first went afloat to fight, down to the war of the Revolution, had not equalled that made in the eighty odd years that elapsed between, say, the battle of Lake Champlain, which was the most important battle afloat in the Revolution, and that of Hampton Roads, which was first in the Civil War. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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United States, Civil War, Hampton Roads, New York, New Orleans, Fort Fisher, Great Britain, Confederate States, Port Royal, Fortress Monroe, Admiral Porter, Fort Sumter, Hilton Head, Navy Department, Newport News, South Carolina, Captain Walke, Fort Pickens, Norfolk Navy Yard, North Carolina, Fort Jackson, Sewell's Point, Captain Wilkes, Fort Henry, Grand Gulf New!
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FROM the point of view of a naval seaman it was a far cry from the first war in defence of the nation's life to the last one-so far, indeed, that all the progress made in the construction of ships of war from the time when men first went afloat to fight, down to the war of the Revolution, had not equalled that made in the eighty odd years that elapsed between, say, the battle of Lake Champlain, which was the most important battle afloat in the Revolution, and that of Hampton Roads, which was first in the Civil War. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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United States, Civil War, Hampton Roads, New York, New Orleans, Fort Fisher, Great Britain, Confederate States, Port Royal, Fortress Monroe, Admiral Porter, Fort Sumter, Hilton Head, Navy Department, Newport News, South Carolina, Captain Walke, Fort Pickens, Norfolk Navy Yard, North Carolina, Fort Jackson, Sewell's Point, Captain Wilkes, Fort Henry, Grand Gulf New!
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- The Civil War by Gina De Angelis on 4 pages
- Civil War by Geoffrey Ward in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- Civil War (Vol 2) by Shelby Foote in Front Matter, and page 281
- The Good Hope (Methuen Modern Plays) by Herman Heijermans on page 434
- The Naval History of the Civil War by Admiral David D. Porter on page 429
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