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Last Flag Down: The Epic Journey of the Last Confederate Warship
by Ron Powers  Publisher Comments As the Confederacy felt itself slipping beneath the Union juggernaut in late 1864, the South launched a desperate counteroffensive to shatter the U.S. economy and force a standoff. Its secret weapon? A state-of-the-art raiding ship whose mission was to...
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Blockaders, Refugees, and Contrabands: Civil War on Florida's Gulf Coast, 1861-1865
by George E Buker Publisher Comments Chronicles the role of the East Gulf Blockading Squadron as an important Federal contingent in Florida. "[Buker] argues that the presence of Union sailors and their extensive contacts ashore did serious damage to home-front morale and retarded...
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Monitor: The Story of the Legendary Civil War Ironclad and the Man Whose Invention Changed the Course of History
by James Tertius Dekay 
Publisher Comments On March 9, 1862, an epic battle was fought that not only affected the course of the Civil War, it forever changed the face of naval warfare. A unique conjunction of technology and events brought the Monitor and Merrimac together on that day in Hampton...
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Diary of a Contraband: The Civil War Passage of a Black Sailor
by Charles A. Beardsley and William B.Gould and Mark O. Hatfield Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 347-364) and index....
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The Secret Service of the Confederate States in Europe, Or, How the Confederate Cruisers Were Equipped (Modern Library War)
by James D Bulloch Publisher Comments At the outbreak of the Civil War, Jefferson Davis sent merchant marine James D. Bulloch to Europe to clandestinely acquire arms and ships for the Confederate navy. His first stop was Britain, a country hedging its bets on who would win the War Between...
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The Last Shot
by Lynn Schooler Publisher Comments Blending high-seas adventure and first-rate research, The Last Shot is naval history of the very first order, offering a riveting account of the last Southern military force to lay down its arms in June 1865. Following orders received the previous autumn,...
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Lamson of the Gettysburg
by James M Mcpherson Publisher Comments Roswell Lamson was one of the boldest and most skillful young officers in the Union navy. Second in the class of 1862 at Annapolis (he took his final exam while at sea during the war), he commanded more ships and flotillas than any other officer of his...
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Reign of Iron: The Story of the First Battling Ironclads, the Monitor and the Merrimack
by James L Nelson Publisher Comments Chapter One Sink Before Surrender Saturday, March 8, 1862, was a beautiful day in Virginia. A gale had blown itself out the night before, and behind it came clear, warm weather, a high-pressure system on the tail of the storm. A day more like May than...
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Success Is All That Was Expected: The South Atlantic Blockading Squadron During the Civil War
by Robert M Browning Publisher Comments SUCCESS IS ALL THAT WAS EXPECTED is a comprehensive operational history of the Union naval blockade that monitored the southern Atlantic coast from South Carolina to Florida during the American Civil War. Created in 1861 by the order of President Abraham...
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Sea of Gray : the Around-the-world Odyssey of the Confederate Raider Shenandoah (06 Edition)
by Tom Chaffin Publisher Comments 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...
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A Year on a Monitor and the Destruction of Fort Sumter
by Alvah F Hunter Synopsis The riveting story of a cabin boy in the Union navy and his participation in 19 sea battles....
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The Battle of Hampton Roads: New Perspectives on the USS Monitor and the CSS Virginia (Marine's Museum)
by Harold Holzer Publisher Comments On March 8 and 9, 1862, a sea battle off the Virginia coast changed naval warfare forever. It began when the Confederate States Navy's CSS Virginia led a task force to break the Union blockade of Hampton Roads. The Virginia sank the USS Cumberland and...
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Monitor: The Story of the Revolutionary Ship and the Man Whose Invention Changed the Course of History
by James Dekay
Publisher Comments On March 9, 1862, an epic battle was fought that not only affected the course of the Civil War, it forever changed the face of naval warfare. A unique conjunction of technology and events brought the Monitor and Merrimac together on that day in Hampton...
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Lincoln's Admiral: The Civil War Campaigns of David Farragul
by James P. Duffy Synopsis Thoroughly researched and compellingly written, this book examines Farragut's command of the most daring and important assignment of the Civil War: the mission to recapture the vital Southern port of New Orleans....
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Lincoln's Admiral: The Civil War Campaigns of David Farragut
by James P Duffy Synopsis "Damn the torpedoes. . . . Full speed ahead." Admiral David Farragut's bold order at the Battle of Mobile Bay has served as a rallying cry for the United States Navy for a century.Described as "urbane" and "indomitable" by contemporaries, and lionized as...
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Rebel Reefers: The Organization and Midshipmen of the Confederate States Naval Academy
by James Lee Conrad Publisher Comments The Confederacy's only national naval academy was anchored in Virginia's James River aboard the CSS Patrick Henry. While their Union counterparts at the U.S. Naval Academy studied at a safe distance from the war, the midshipmen of the Confederate States...
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By Sea and by River: The Naval History of the Civil War (Da Capo Paperback)
by Bern Anderson Publisher Comments Less bloody and less known than the land campaigns of the Civil War, the naval battles—and especially the naval blockade of the South—were crucial factors in the outcome of the war. The spectacular battle between the Monitor and the Merrimack...
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Lincoln's Man in Liverpool: Consul Dudley and the Legal Battle to Stop Confederate Warships
by Coy Cross Book News Annotation Dudley was US consul in Liverpool from 1861 to 1872, and the only book devoted to him focuses exclusively on his work as a spymaster. Cross, a historian for the US Air Force, describes his efforts as a lawyer to make a case that Britain was failing to...
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Ironclad Down: The CSS Virginia from Design to Destruction
by Carl D Park Book News Annotation Park, a master model builder, offers a definitive account of the famous Civil War ship that includes the most detailed structural information available and corrects long-standing inaccuracies about its design and construction. Divided into three parts,...
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Duel Between the First Ironclads
by William C Davis Publisher Comments One was called a tin can on a shingle; the other, a half-submerged crocodile. Yet, on a March day in 1862 in Hampton Roads, Virginia, after a five-hour duel, the U.S.S. Monitor and the C.S.S. Virginia (formerly the U.S.S. Merrimack) were to change the...
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