Under Two Flags: The American Navy in the Civil War
Under Two Flags: The American Navy in the Civil War
W. W. Norton & Company | 1990 | ISBN: 0393028593 | English | 360 pages | PDF | 59.2 MB
This is an account of naval conflict in the American Civil War. The author describes scenarios such as primitive Northern gunboats drifting through Louisiana's muddy bayous, rebel privateers capturing Yankee merchantmen at sea and Union ironclads subduing Southern forts with relentless gunfire. Examines the role of the Union and Confederate navies during the Civil War and discusses the technological and strategic evolution of the Navy during the period.