From Cape Charles to Cape Fear: The North Atlantic Blockading Squadron during the Civil War
From Cape Charles to Cape Fear: The North Atlantic Blockading Squadron during the Civil War
by Robert M. Browning Jr.
University of Alabama Press, 2003 Paper: 978-0-8173-5019-2 | Cloth: 978-0-8173-0679-3 | eISBN: 978-0-8173-9099-0 Library of Congress Classification E600.B86 1993 Dewey Decimal Classification 973.75
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC
ABOUT THIS BOOK
Examines naval logistics, tactics, and strategy employed by the Union blockade off the Atlantic coast of the Confederacy.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Robert M. Browning Jr. is Chief Historian of the United States Coast Guard and author of Success Is All that Was Expected: The South Atlantic Blockading Squadron during the Civil War.
REVIEWS
"[This book] gives us the facts of creating a squadron; of conducting operations on small, inland waterways; of blockading the coast and controlling internal trade; of cooperating with the army in joint expeditions; and of supplying both army and navy in its area."
—Journal of Southern History
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
Illustrations
Preface
1.
Had Failure been Possible: The Navy's Response to War
2.
Glory again to our Arms: The Capture of Eastern North Carolina
3.
Richmond is a Hard Road to Travel: The Peninsular Campaign
4.
We have no use for the River: The Navy in the Eastern Theater
5.
The Enemy are … within the Ring Stalemate in North Carolina
6.
Uncle Sam's Web Feet: Operations in the Interior Waters
7.
Results go far Different from those Desired: Acquiring and Maintaining the Fleet
8.
No Chance for Manavelins: Supplying the Squadron
9.
Economize Fuel all you can: Coaling the Gunboats
10.
To make Bricks without Straw: Men and the Navy
11.
We are all Anxious to make the Blockade Efficient: The Coastal Blockade
12.
Ishmaelites upon the Broad Ocean: The Blockade Runners
13.
We are Looking for old Abe's Fleet: The Capture of Wilmington