Notice bibliographique
- Notice
Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : McPherson, James M. (1936-....)
Titre(s) : War on the waters [Texte imprimé] : the Union and Confederate Navies, 1861-1865 / James M. McPherson
Publication : Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, copyright 2012
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (277 pages) : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Collection : The Littlefield history of the Civil War era
Lien à la collection : The Littlefield history of the Civil War era
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-267) and index
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. 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
Sujet(s) : États-Unis -- 1861-1865 (Guerre de Sécession) -- Opérations navales
Etats-Unis. Navy -- 19e siècle
États confédérés d'Amérique. Navy
Indice(s) Dewey :
973.7 (23e éd.) = Histoire - États-Unis - 1861-1865
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780807835883. - ISBN 0807835889. - ISBN 9781469622842. - ISBN 146962284X
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb47326685p
Notice n° :
FRBNF47326685
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Mobilizing for war ; Establishing the blockade ; We've got New Orleans ; The river
war in 1861-1862 ; The Confederacy strikes back ; Nothing but disaster ; A most
signal defeat ; Unvexed to the sea ; Ironclads, torpedoes, and salt, 1863-1864
; From the Red River to Cherbourg ; Damn the torpedoes.
