The Best Station of Them All : The Savannah Squadron, 1861-1865 /

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The Best Station of Them All is the story of the Confederate navy's Savannah Squadron, its relationship with the people of Savannah, Georgia, and its role in the city's economy.In this well-written and extensively researched narrative, Maurice Melton charts the history of the unit, the sai...

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Autor principal: Melton, Maurice
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2012.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Confederate States of America. > Navy. > Savannah Squadron.
Military operations, Naval.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
Georgia > Savannah.
Georgia.
Georgie (État) > Histoire > 1861-1865 (Guerre de Secession) > Operations navales.
Savannah (Ga.) > History, Military > 19th century.
Georgia > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Naval operations.
Military history.
History.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; 1. The Georgia Navy; 2. Tattnall: The Legend Comes Home; 3. The Georgia Coast Guard; 4. "Old Abes Blockade Is No Good in This Section"; 5. "All We Want Is to Be Let Alone"; 6. Sailors; 7. The Bermuda Shows the Way; 8. A Future Navy; 9. Port Royal; 10. Enter the Fingal; 11. "Happy Hearts and Happy Homes Are Now No More": The Battle for Port Royal; 12. Bringing the Fingal Home; 13. The Fingal, Tattnall, and Robert E. Lee; 14. The Enemy Outside; 15. Lee Goes, and Tattnall Follows; 16. The Ladies' Ironclad Gunboat; 17. Pulaski Goes Up
  • 18. The Lull19. Ironclads for Savannah; 20. The Interim; 21. "The Poetry of the Profession Is Gone"; 22. Training and Trials; 23. Christmas, 1862; 24. The Promise of Ironclads; 25. The Revolving Door; 26. "With a Few Blows Crushed Out All Hope"; 27. The Aftermath; 28. Prisoners; 29. Fall, 1863; 30. The Great Christmas Riot; 31. Early 1864; 32. In the Doldrums; 33. The Florida Boys; 34. Blockaded; 35. The Water Witch; 36. After the Capture; 37. Securing the Prize; 38. The Newlyweds; 39. Waiting; 40. John Thomas Scharf, Midshipman; 41. Savannah Feels the Pressure
  • 42. Savannah Goes Up: The Squadron Shattered43. Wilmington; 44. Augusta; 45. Richmond, the "Aye, Ayes," and Sayler's Creek; 46. The End; Notes; Bibliography; Index

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