War on the waters : [the Union and Confederate navies, 1861-1865]

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Label

War on the waters : [the Union and Confederate navies, 1861-1865]

Title remainder

[the Union and Confederate navies, 1861-1865]

Statement of responsibility

James M. McPherson

Creator

• McPherson, James M

Contributor

• Barrett, Joe, 1950-
• hoopla digital

Narrator

• Barrett, Joe, 1950-

Subject

• United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Campaigns
• United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Naval operations
• United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Riverine operations
• United States, Navy -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
• Confederate States of America, Navy -- History

Language

eng

Summary

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

Member of

• Littlefield history of the Civil War era

Accompanying matter

technical information on music

Cataloging source

Midwest

Dewey number

973.7/5

Form of composition

not applicable

Format of music

not applicable

Literary text for sound recordings

other

PerformerNote

Read by Joe Barrett

Target audience

adult

Transposition and arrangement

not applicable