Captains of the Civil War: A Chronicle of the Blue and the GrayLibrary of Alexandria, 1921 M01 1 - 424 pages |
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... sea-power, both naval and mercantile, which the Confederates could not begin to challenge, much less overcome. Lee was the military adviser.
... sea-power, both naval and mercantile, which the Confederates could not begin to challenge, much less overcome. Lee was the military adviser.
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... sea-power and the absence of any good land frontier of her own. Kentucky remained neutral for several months. Missouri was saved for the Union by those two resourceful and determined men, Lyon and Blair. Kansas, though preponderantly ...
... sea-power and the absence of any good land frontier of her own. Kentucky remained neutral for several months. Missouri was saved for the Union by those two resourceful and determined men, Lyon and Blair. Kansas, though preponderantly ...
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... sea-power shut off the South from all its foreign markets. In manufactures the South could not compare at all ... sea-power! Northern sea-power also cut off nearly everything the sick and wounded needed; which raised the death rate of ...
... sea-power shut off the South from all its foreign markets. In manufactures the South could not compare at all ... sea-power! Northern sea-power also cut off nearly everything the sick and wounded needed; which raised the death rate of ...
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... sea-power meant in this respect may be estimated from the fact that out of the more than three-quarters of a million ... sea, and inland waters. Other things being equal, a hundred tons could be moved by water as easily as ten by rail or ...
... sea-power meant in this respect may be estimated from the fact that out of the more than three-quarters of a million ... sea, and inland waters. Other things being equal, a hundred tons could be moved by water as easily as ten by rail or ...
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... sea-power in its fullest sense, to include all naval and mercantile parts on both salt and fresh water, we can quite understand how it helped the nautical North to get the stranglehold on the landsman's South. The great bulk of the ...
... sea-power in its fullest sense, to include all naval and mercantile parts on both salt and fresh water, we can quite understand how it helped the nautical North to get the stranglehold on the landsman's South. The great bulk of the ...
Contents
CHAPTER III THE NAVAL WAR 1862 | |
CHAPTER IV THE RIVER WAR 1862 | |
CHAPTER V LINCOLN WAR STATESMAN | |
CHAPTER VI LEE AND JACKSON 18623 | |
CHAPTER VII GRANT WINS THE RIVER WAR 1863 | |
CHAPTER VIII GETTYSBURG 1863 | |
CHAPTER IX FARRAGUT AND THE NAVY 18634 | |
CHAPTER X GRANT ATTACKS THE FRONT 1864 | |
CHAPTER XI SHERMAN DESTROYS THE BASE 1864 | |
CHAPTER XII THE END 1865 | |
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE | |
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advance Alabama arms army attack Banks battalion batteries battle Beauregard began blockade Bragg brigade Buell Bull Run campaign cavalry Centreville Charleston Chattanooga civilian Colonel command Confederate corps Culp's Hill Cumberland defeat defense enemy Farragut Federal fighting fire flank fleet flotilla Fortress Monroe fought Fredericksburg front garrison Government Grant gunboats guns Halleck hand Harper's Ferry Henry Hill Hooker hundred infantry ironclad Johnston Kearsarge knew land Lee's Lincoln Longstreet maneuvers McClellan McClernand McDowell Meanwhile Merrimac miles military Mississippi naval navy never North Northern numbers officers orders Orleans Pope Port Hudson Potomac raid rails rear reinforcements retreat Richmond river round sea-power sent Shenandoah Shenandoah Valley Sheridan Sherman ships shot side soldiers South Southern Stanton Stonewall Jackson stood strategic Stuart Sumter supplies surrender Tennessee thousand took troops turned Union armies Union forces Valley vessels Vicksburg victory Washington West Virginia whole