Title: Blue & Gray Navies
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.
Subjects: United states, navy, history, Confederate states of america, navy, United states, history, civil war, 1861-1865, naval operations, History, Naval operations, United States. Navy, United States, Confederate States of America. Navy, Confederate States of America