The Confederate Steam Navy 1861-1865 - 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 Confederate Steam Navy 1861-1865 write by Donald L. Canney. This book was released on 2015. The Confederate Steam Navy 1861-1865 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is the first book-length study devoted to the vessels of the Confederate Navy, including all types used during the conflict: ironclads (both domestic and foreign-built), commerce raiders, blockade runners, riverine and ocean-going gunboats, torpedo and submersible vessels, and floating batteries. The book emphasizes the development, construction, and design of these vessels using, where available, original plans, photographs, and contemporary descriptions. The author describes these vessels in context with wartime conditions as well as with the transitional naval technology of the era. Over 100 vessels are detailed, including more than 30 ironclads, both American and foreign built. Over 150 illustrations are included, many of which have not previously been published. Also included is a section on steam engine technology of the era.
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.
Engines of Rebellion
Engines of Rebellion - 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 Engines of Rebellion write by Saxon Bisbee. This book was released on 2018-08-07. Engines of Rebellion available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The development of steam propulsion machinery in warships during the nineteenth century, in conjunction with iron armor and shell guns, resulted in a technological revolution in the world's navies. Warships utilizing all of these technologies were built in France and Great Britain in the 1850s, but it was during the American Civil War that large numbers of ironclads powered solely by steam proved themselves to be quite capable warships. This book focuses on Confederate ironclads with American built machinery, offering a detailed look at marine steam-engineering practices in both northern and southern industry prior to and during the Civil War. It gives a contextual naval history of the Civil War, the creation of the ironclad program, and the advent of various technologies. The author analyzes the armored warships built by the Confederate States of America that represented a style adapted to scarce industrial resources and facilities.
Warships and Naval Battles of the Civil War
Warships and Naval Battles of 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 Warships and Naval Battles of the Civil War write by Tony Gibbons. This book was released on 1989. Warships and Naval Battles of the Civil War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "After thirty years of research, this book presents, for the first time, a comprehensive study of the battleships and cruisers of the conflict. It looks at the ironclads of the North and South, the Union sloops and gunboats that blockaded the Confederacy, and Confederate raiders and privateers who destroyed the Union's merchant marine. An in-depth examination is made of the secret weapon that could have tipped the scales for the South -- the submarine."--Jacket
Civil War Naval Chronology, 1861-1865
Civil War Naval Chronology, 1861-1865 - 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 Civil War Naval Chronology, 1861-1865 write by United States. Naval History Division. This book was released on 1961. Civil War Naval Chronology, 1861-1865 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
