Blue & Gray Navies
Subtitle: The Civil War Afloat
Publisher: US Naval Institute Press; Naval Institute Press
Published: August 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 426
ISBN-13: 9781591148821
Subjects: American history: c 1800 to c 1900; Civil war; Naval forces & warfare; United States.; Naval operations; History - Military / War; History; United States - General; History: American; USA; Navy; Military - Naval; United States - Civil War; Civil War, 1861-1865; Confederate States of America.; United States
Description: "Drawing on recent scholarship, official records, and the memoirs of participants, Spencer Tucker looks at the important roles played by the Union and Confederate navies during the Civil War. Tucker opens with an overview of the U.S. Navy's history to 1861 and then closely examines the two navies at the beginning of the war, including the senior leadership, officers and personnel, organization, recruitment practices, training, facilities, and manufacturing resources. He discusses the acquisition of ships and the design and construction of new types, as well as their armament and the development of naval ordnance, and Northern and Southern naval strategies."--Jacket.