Title: Gunsmoke over the Atlantic
First published: 2002
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.
Subjects: History, History, Naval, Naval History, Naval operations, United States Civil War, 1861-1865, Civil war, Naval Military operations
Places: Atlantic Coast (U.S.), United States
Time periods: 19th century, Civil War, 1861-1865
LC classification: E591 .C755 2002