Gunsmoke over the Atlantic
Subtitle: first naval actions of the Civil War
By: Jack D. Coombe.
Publisher: Bantam Books
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 268
Subjects: United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Naval operations.; Atlantic Coast (U.S.) -- History, Naval -- 19th century.
Description: "Historian Jack D. Coombe combines research with a novelist's flair for re-creation to put us directly into the action of the Civil War on river, on shore, and at sea. In this account, we experience the terror of a bombardment, the claustrophobic confines of a still-unproven submarine, and the smoke-choked chaos of a harbor in the grips of a full-bore naval engagement between two desperate enemies.

Coombe focuses on the Civil War as it was fought along the Atlantic coast, a fierce contest of blockaders and blockade-runners, ironclads, wood-hulled battleships, land cannon, submarines, and the first underwater antiship weapons."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-257) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Naval Chronology: 1860-1865 ix; title: Introduction xi; title: Naval Nomenclature xvii; title: 1 Fort Sumter and the U.S. Navy 1; title: 2 A Navy Yard Falls 17; title: 3 The Blockade and the Blockade-Runners 26; title: 4 A New Navy Is Born 36; title: 5 The First Amphibious Operations, Part 1: Cape Hatteras 47; title: 6 The First Amphibious Operations, Part 2: Port Royal 58; title: 7 The Trent Tribulation 71; title: 8 Mopping Up the Sounds: Roanoke 80; title: 9 Monitor vs. Merrimack, Part 1: The Antagonists 90; title: 10 Monitor vs. Merrimack, Part 2: The Conflict 105; title: 11 Monitor vs. Merrimack, Part 3: The Aftermath 122; title: 12 Fort Pulaski Falls 132; title: 13 Fort Sumter Revisited 137; title: 14 The Hunley and Underwater Warfare 150; title: 15 The Albemarle Saga 160; title: 16 Kearsarge vs. Alabama: End of a Raider 171; title: 17 Climax at Fort Fisher, Part 1 183; title: 18 Climax at Fort Fisher, Part 2 194; title: 19 Twilight of the Confederate Navy 204; title: 20 A Glance Backward 211; title: Abbreviations 219; title: Notes 221; title: Bibliography 251; title: Index 259.