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.
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. War on the Waters available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A book with 23 illustrations, 19 maps, notes, a bibliography and an index offers a sweeping history of the Civil War navies in action.
The Great Lakes Water Wars
The Great Lakes Water Wars - 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 Great Lakes Water Wars write by Peter Annin. This book was released on 2009-08-25. The Great Lakes Water Wars available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Great Lakes are the largest collection of fresh surface water on earth, and more than 40 million Americans and Canadians live in their basin. Will we divert water from the Great Lakes, causing them to end up like Central Asia's Aral Sea, which has lost 90 percent of its surface area and 75 percent of its volume since 1960? Or will we come to see that unregulated water withdrawals are ultimately catastrophic? Peter Annin writes a fast-paced account of the people and stories behind these upcoming battles. Destined to be the definitive story for the general public as well as policymakers, The Great Lakes Water Wars is a balanced, comprehensive look behind the scenes at the conflicts and compromises that are the past-and future-of this unique resource.
A Country of Our Own
A Country of Our Own - 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 Country of Our Own write by David Poyer. This book was released on 2005-07-05. A Country of Our Own available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The most fascinating episode in American history, the Civil War has also inspired some of its greatest fiction, from The Red Badge of Courage to Cold Mountain.
Waters of Discord
Waters of Discord - 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 Waters of Discord write by Rodman L. Underwood. This book was released on 2003-01-01. Waters of Discord available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. At the beginning of the American Civil War the Federal government imposed a blockade of the southern coast of the Confederate States of America, including the dark corner of the Confederacy--Texas. Much of the fighting in Texas during the Civil War took place in the state's coastal counties and the adjoining Gulf of Mexico waters, and nearly all of these engagements were involved in one way or another with the Union blockade of the Texas coast. This book examines all major blockade-related land and sea engagements in and near Texas, and also includes many minor ones. It begins with a discussion of the blockade's creation and then concentrates on the successful Confederate efforts to evade the blockade by shipping cotton out of Mexico and, in return, receiving materiel and civilian goods through that neutral nation. The author also covers political intrigue and the spy activity with the French who had invaded Mexico. The book concludes with an analysis of the effectiveness of the Union blockade of Texas.
