Divided Waters: The Naval History of the Civil War
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| Rating | : | 4.45 (759 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0785812105 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 473 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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N. Newsense said Good overview. The other reviews accurately note the book's good and bad points. I liked it because I was looking for a general overview. Others will want more depth in certain aspects. The book is large but was easy reading without too much technical naval lingo getting in the way. I liked the organization of presenting each theater of war as a separate chapter. Solid Overview of the CSA-USA Naval Efforts T. Carter Ross In Divided Waters, Ivan Musicant provides a solid, although at times basic, overview of Confederate and Union naval efforts, strategies, conflicts and technological developments during the Civil War. Organized by theater of operations instead of chronologically, there are some moments where the events of one chapter seem odd in the context of the . Divided Waters Bedford This book was a great disappointment. What could have been a scholarly work is marred by the author's Union prejudice to the point that it distracts the reader with constant references to Confederate sailors as "bushwackers" and other Confederate leaders as "negrophobic", etc., etc. The entire book is told from the author's prejudiced point of vie
A naval history of the Civil War uses the words of the men who were there--taken from primary sources such as diaries, letters, and memoirs--to the tell the story from an often forgotten point of view.
He demonstrates as well the vital role of Union sea power in such combined-arms riverine operations as the siege of Vicksburg. He focuses on the responses of both combatants to unfamiliar challenges. . Illustrations not seen by PW. Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Publishers Weekly Musicant (Battleship at War) draws on the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion and a broad spectrum of published primary and secondary sources for this history of the Civil War's naval operations. Musicant is at his best when describing the duel between the Kearsarge and the Alabama, or Admiral David Farragut's forcing of Mobile Bay. His final conclusion, that the Union blockade ultimately deprived the Confederacy of the commercial and political contacts