Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 308 pages) : illustrations, maps |
Contents |
Preface ; Acknowledgments; Prologue; PART ONE: EVOLUTION OF A BATTLE ; 1. Ram Fever ; 2. A New General in Chief; 3. The Decision to Attack ; 4. The Plan ; 5. The Attack Is Canceled; 6. A New Plan ; 7. More Delay ; 8. Manhattan Joins the Fleet; 9. Tecumseh Reaches Pensacola; PART TWO: THE END OF THE BEGINNING ; 10. Girding for Battle ; 11. The Troops Embark ; 12. The River Monitors Arrive ; 13. So Daring a Plan ; 14. The Army Lands ; 15. The Navy Is Late ; 16. Tecumseh Steams In ; 17. Get Under Way ; PART THREE: A STORM CLOUD ALL AGLOW; 18. Catastrophe; 19. Go Ahead ; 20. Gauntlet |
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21. Gunboat Fight 22. Melee ; 23. Surrender ; Epilogue ; Notes ; Bibliography ; About the Author |
Summary |
One of history''s greatest naval engagements and the Civil War''s bloodiest is examined for both its political ramifications and influence on naval tactics and ship design |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
Subject |
Mobile Bay, Battle of, Ala., 1864.
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
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Geschichte 1864.
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Alabama
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Mobile Bay -- Seeschlacht.
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Form |
Electronic book
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LC no. |
2003017844 |
ISBN |
9781612513515 |
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1612513514 |
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