Early Coastal Operations in North Carolina During the Civil War - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Early Coastal Operations in North Carolina During the Civil War write by John Stephen Carbone. This book was released on 1984. Early Coastal Operations in North Carolina During the Civil War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Gunboats, Muskets, and Torpedoes
Gunboats, Muskets, and Torpedoes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gunboats, Muskets, and Torpedoes write by Michael G. Laramie. This book was released on 2020. Gunboats, Muskets, and Torpedoes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Clash of Arms and Technology for a Critical Region that Lasted the Entire American Civil War From the first shots at Cape Hatteras in the summer of 1861 to the fall of Fort Fisher in early 1865, the contest for coastal North Carolina during the American Civil War was crucial to the Union victory. With a clear naval superiority over the South, the North conducted blockading and amphibious operations from Virginia to Texas, including the three-hundred-mile seacoast of North Carolina. With its Pamlico and Albemarle Sounds--fed by navigable rivers that reached deep into the interior--and major Confederate port of Wilmington, the Carolina coast was essential for the distribution of foreign goods and supplies to Confederate forces in Virginia and elsewhere. If the Union was able to capture Wilmington or advance on the interior waters, they would cripple the South's war efforts. In Gunboats, Muskets, and Torpedoes: Coastal North Carolina, 1861-1865, award-winning historian Michael G. Laramie chronicles both the battle over supplying the South by sea as well as the ways this region proved to be a fertile ground for the application of new technologies. With the advent of steam propulsion, the telegraph, rifled cannon, repeating firearms, ironclads, and naval mines, the methods and tactics of the old wooden walls soon fell to those of this first major conflict of the industrial age. Soldiers and sailors could fire farther and faster than ever before. With rail transportation available, marches were no longer weeks but days or even hours, allowing commanders to quickly shift men and materials to meet an oncoming threat or exploit an enemy weakness. Fortifications changed to meet the challenges imposed by improved artillery, while the telegraph stretched the battlefield even further. Yet for all the technological changes, many of which would be harbingers of greater conflicts to come, the real story of this strategic coast is found in the words and actions of the soldiers and sailors who vied for this region for nearly four years. It is here, where the choices made--whether good or bad, misinformed, or not made at all--intersected with logistical hurdles, geography, valor, and fear to shape the conflict; a conflict thatwould ultimately set the postwar nation on track to becoming a modern naval power.
The Civil War on the Outer Banks
The Civil War on the Outer Banks - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Civil War on the Outer Banks write by Fred M. Mallison. This book was released on 1998. The Civil War on the Outer Banks available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The ports at Beaufort, Wilmington, New Bern and Ocracoke, part of the Outer Banks (a chain of barrier islands that sweeps down the North Carolina coast from the Virginia Capes to Oregon Inlet), were early involved in the chaos that grew into the Civil War. Though smaller than their counterparts in South Carolina, the small river ports were useful for the import of war materiel and the export of cash producing crops, through their use of the inlets that led from sounds to sea. Written from official records, contemporary newspaper accounts, personal journals of the soldiers, and many unpublished manuscripts and memoirs, this is a full accounting of the Civil War along the North Carolina coast.
Defending South Carolina's Coast
Defending South Carolina's Coast - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Defending South Carolina's Coast write by Rick Simmons. This book was released on 2015-10-19. Defending South Carolina's Coast available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Defending South Carolina's Coast: The Civil War from Georgetown to Little River, area native Rick Simmons relates the often overlooked stories of the upper South Carolina coast during the Civil War. As a base of operations for more than three thousand troops early in the war and the site of more than a dozen forts, almost every inch of the coast was affected by and hotly contested during the Civil War. From the skirmishes at Fort Randall in Little River and the repeated Union naval bombardments of Murrells Inlet to the unrealized potential of the massive fortifications at Battery White and the sinking of the USS Harvest Moon in Winyah Bay, the region's colorful Civil War history is unfolded here at last.
The Civil War in Coastal North Carolina
The Civil War in Coastal North Carolina - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Civil War in Coastal North Carolina write by John Stephen Carbone. This book was released on 2001. The Civil War in Coastal North Carolina available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Examines the impact the Civil War had on coastal North Carolina, describing the key battles that took place on the state's coast during the war.
