Four Years in the Confederate Navy - 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 Four Years in the Confederate Navy write by William Stanley Hoole. This book was released on 2012-02-01. Four Years in the Confederate Navy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. John Low came to America from England in 1856 at the suggestion of his uncle, Andrew Low, a prosperous Savannah- Liverpool businessman. Just as he established himself in nautical businesses in Savannah the Civil War broke out. Low was ordered to England to help in the undercover task of buying, building, and convoying warships to the South. William Stanley Hoole traces Low's adventures in the service of the Confederacy. Low aided in the acquisition and delivery of the ironclad Fingal and the Florida. He served with Admiral Semmes aboard the famed raider Alabama and was involved in the capture, commissioning, voyage, and detention of the Tuscaloosa. His final task was to deliver the Ajax in the last days of the war.
A History of the Confederate Navy
A History of the Confederate Navy - 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 A History of the Confederate Navy write by Raimondo Luraghi. This book was released on 1996. A History of the Confederate Navy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Pushing aside the long-held belief that the answers went up in flames when the Confederate Navy archives were torched during the evacuation of Richmond, Luraghi combed fifty archives in four countries and uncovered information that shattered prevailing myths about that service's contributions.
History of the Confederate States Navy from Its Organization to the Surrender of Its Last Vessel
History of the Confederate States Navy from Its Organization to the Surrender of Its Last Vessel - 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 History of the Confederate States Navy from Its Organization to the Surrender of Its Last Vessel write by John Thomas Scharf. This book was released on 1887. History of the Confederate States Navy from Its Organization to the Surrender of Its Last Vessel available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
War on the Waters
War on the Waters - 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 War on the Waters write by James M. McPherson. This book was released on 2012-09-17. War on the Waters available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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. In War on the Waters, James M. McPherson has crafted an enlightening, at times harrowing, and ultimately thrilling account of the war's naval campaigns and their military leaders. 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.
Sea of Gray
Sea of Gray - 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 Sea of Gray write by Tom Chaffin. This book was released on 2007-04-15. Sea of Gray available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Assembled from hundreds of original documents, including intimate shipboard journals kept by Shenandoah officers, Sea of Gray is a masterful narrative of men at sea The sleek, 222-foot, black auxiliary steamer Sea King left London on October 8, 1864, ostensibly bound for Bombay. The subterfuge was ended off the shores of Madeira, where the ship was outfitted for war. The newly christened CSS Shenandoah then commenced the last, most quixotic sea story of the Civil War: the 58,000-mile, around-the-world cruise of the Confederacy's second most successful commerce raider. Before its voyage was over, thirty-two Union merchant and whaling ships and their cargoes would be destroyed. But it was only after ship and crew embarked on the last leg of their journey that the excursion took its most fearful turn. Four months after the Civil War was over, the Shenandoah's Captain Waddell finally learned he was, and had been, fighting without cause or state. In the eyes of the world, he had gone from being an enemy combatant to being a pirate—a hangable offense. Now fearing capture and mutiny, with supplies quickly dwindling, Waddell elected to camouflage the ship, circumnavigate the globe, and attempt to surrender on English soil. "A superb account of how the Confederate raider Shenandoah brought the American Civil War to the farthest reaches of the world." -- Nathaniel Philbrick, author of Mayflower and Sea of Glory
