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Lincoln and his admirals : Abraham Lincoln, the U.S. Navy, and the Civil War /
In 1952, T. Harry Williams wrote the classic study, Lincoln and His Generals. Half a century later, Craig Symonds will write its necessary follow-up, Lincoln and His Admirals - a much-needed history of the Union navy during the Civil War. Given the wealth of books on the military history of the Civi...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2008.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1861: GETTING UNDER WAY. "What have I done wrong?": Lincoln and the Fort Sumter crisis
- "A competent force": Lincoln and the blockade
- "No affront to the British flag": Lincoln and the Trent affair
- 1862: CHARTING A COURSE. "Rain and the rebels out": Lincoln and the River war
- "It strikes me there's something in it": Lincoln and the Monitor
- "We cannot escape history": Lincoln and the contrabands
- 1863: TROUBLED WATERS. "The peninsula all over again": Lincoln, Charleston, and Vicksburg
- "I shall have to cut this know": Lincoln as adjudicator
- "Peace does not appear so distant as it did": Lincoln and the wartime politics
- 1864: FULL SPEED AHEAD. "A worthy object": Lincoln and the Red River campaign
- "A vote of thanks" Lincoln and the politics of promotion
- "I must refer you to General Grant": Lincoln relinquishes the conn
- 1865: FINAL HARBOR. Epilogue: "Thank God that I have lived to see this": Lincoln and the end of the war.