Blue & Gray at Sea
Subtitle: Naval Memoirs of the Civil War
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: Forge Books
Published: December 1, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9780765308955
Subjects: Navy; United States - Civil War; Military; History; History - U.S; United States; History: American; Personal narratives; Naval operations; Historical - U.S; American history: c 1800 to c 1900; History / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877); Naval forces & warfare; USA; c 1800 to c 1900; United States; Biography; Civil War, 1861-1865
First sentence: After the Napoleonic wars an exhausted world knew a long period of peace, which, until the beginning of the Civil War, had been broken only by our war with Mexico in 1846, the Crimean War in 1854, and the Franco-Austrian War in 1859.