Myron J. Smith

The USS Carondelet

A Civil War Ironclad on Western Waters

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Produktbeschreibung

The USS Carondelet had a revolutionary ship design and was the most active of all the Union's Civil War river ironclads. From Fort Henry through the siege of Vicksburg and from the Red River campaign through the Battle of Nashville, the gunboat was prominent in war legend and literature. This history draws on the letters of Ensign Scott Dyer Jordan and Rear Adm. Henry Walke's memoirs.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 550g
• ISBN-13: 9780786445240
• ISBN-10: 0786445246
• Artikelnr.: 28179573

Autorenporträt

Prolific author Myron J. Smith, Jr., is emeritus library director and professor at Tusculum University, Greeneville, Tennessee.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments      viii
Foreword by W. Douglas Bell     
Preface     
1. Planning the Western Ironclads     
2. The Building of the Carondelet and the City Series Gunboats     
3. Life Aboard the Carondelet     
4. Fort Henry     
5. Fort Donelson     
6. Island No. 10     
7. Fort Pillow and Memphis     
8. The Arkansas     
9. Transition, January-March 1863     
10. Vicksburg     
11. From Vicksburg to Red River     
12. Nashville     
13. War's End     
Chapter Notes     
Bibliography     
Index