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Lincoln's Trident : The West Gulf Blockading Squadron during the Civil War /

In Lincoln's Trident, Coast Guard historian Robert M. Browning Jr. continues his magisterial series about the Union's naval blockade of the Confederacy during the American Civil War. Established by the Navy Department in 1862, the West Gulf Blockading Squadron operated from St. Andrews Bay...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Browning, Robert M. Jr., 1955-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, [2015]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:In Lincoln's Trident, Coast Guard historian Robert M. Browning Jr. continues his magisterial series about the Union's naval blockade of the Confederacy during the American Civil War. Established by the Navy Department in 1862, the West Gulf Blockading Squadron operated from St. Andrews Bay (Panama City), Florida to the Rio Grande River. As with the Navy's blockade squadrons operating in the Atlantic, the mission of the West Gulf Blockading Squadron was to cripple the South's economy by halting imports and disrupting cotton exports, the South's main source of hard currency. The bloc.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (714 pages).
ISBN:9780817387785