Sailing with Farragut
Subtitle: the Civil War recollections of Bartholomew Diggins
By: edited by George S. Burkhardt
Contributors: Burkhardt, George S., 1927- editor
Series: Voices of the Civil War
Publisher: The University of Tennessee Press
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Knoxville
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781621902089
Subjects: Hartford (Ship); United States; Medal of Honor; Mobile Bay, Battle of, Ala., 1864; Naval History; Personal narratives; United States. Navy; Naval operations; Biography; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I. Off to war; title: To the Mississippi; title: Fighting the forts: "The nois was teroble"; title: New Orleans falls; title: Part II. Vicksburg; title: Ships battle "to no purpose"; title: Can not crawl up hills; title: A Rebel ram mortifies Federals; title: Back down river; title: Part III. Port Hudson; title: Hard times; title: Disaster; title: Blocking the rivers; title: Part IV. Mobile; title: Waiting game; title: The Ivanhoe saga; title: "Damn the torpedoes"; title: One against many; title: Fort Morgan resists; title: Part V. Home; title: Epilogue.