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Unknown to the general public, detailed logbooks of most Civil War vessels have survived and now lie in the National Archives. Using research from these and other official records, the author has written detailed accounts of the most important events in Civil War maritime history, including battles, amphibious assaults, shipwrecks, court-martials, and even the yellow fever epidemics of 1862 and 1864.
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Civil War Sea Battles : Seafights and Shipwrecks in the War between the States
author
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Miller, Edward Stokes.
publisher
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Combined Publishing
isbn10 | asin
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0938289527
print isbn13
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9780938289524
ebook isbn13
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9780585100081
language
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English
subject
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Naval operations.
publication date
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1995
lcc
:
E591.M53 1995eb
ddc
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973.7/5
subject
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United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Naval operations.
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Civil War Sea Battles
Seafights and Shipwrecks in the War Between the States
Edward Stokes Miller
COMBINED BOOKS Pennsylvania
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Appreciation
I have received invaluable help and advice from two persons, Elizabeth Cadwalader and Frank Duffy, both of whom took time to go over the manuscript and give me invaluable advice. For this I thank them sincerely.
The copyright to Chapter IV and Part 1 of Chapter X is owned by the United States Naval Institute; Chapter II, Part 4 of Chapter X and Chapter XVIII have appeared in Sea Classics Magazine; Chapter IX has appeared in BLUE&GRAY Magazine. Chapter XIV has appeared and Chapter I will appear in America's Civil War and Chapter XVI has appeared in Civil War Times Illustrated.
For information, address: COMBINED BOOKS, INC. 151 E. 10th Avenue Conshohocken, PA 19428
Copyright 1995 by Edward Stokes Miller All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electrical, mechanical or otherwise without first seeking the written persmission of the publisher.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Miller, Edward Stokes, 1917 Civil War sea battles: seafights and shipwrecks in the war between states / Edward Stokes Miller. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 0938289527 1. United StatesHistoryCivil War, 18611865Naval operations. I. Title. E591.M53 1995 973.7'5dc209515825 CIP
Combined Books Edition 1 2 3 4 5
First published in the USA in 1995 by Combined Books and distributed in North America by Stackpole Books, Inc., 5067 Ritter Road, Mechanicsburg, PA 17055 and internationally by Greenhill Books, Lionel Leventhal Ltd., 1 Russell Gardens, London NW11 9NN
Printed in the United States of America.
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This book is for three people, two of whom will never read it in this world...
First. My beloved wife of over fifty years, Betty, who heroically survived a distaste of history to encourage me and who, being Welsh born, had to overcome a minimum of knowledge and of interest in the American Civil War. She is simply wonderful and I cannot say that enough times.
Second. My grandfather, Lieutenant Commander Edwin Harrison Miller USN (18301874). Enlisting in the Navy as a seaman in November 1861, he served in Constellation for two years, being promoted to Acting Ensign. Standing fourteenth in the list of officers examined in 1867, he was retained in the service, being promoted in 1870 to the rank of Lieutenant Commander. Victim of a yellow fever epidemic in New Orleans, he died of its complications in 1874 leaving three small children and,
Third. My grandmother, Elizabeth Fisher Miller (18501918). Living with her parents in a light house at the Head of the Passes at the mouth of the Mississippi (and thus being a witness to The Fight at the Head of the Passes) she met her future husband in New Orleans where he served at the end of the war. Upon their marriage she moved from Louisiana to the small village of Williamsburg, Massachusetts, light years apart from the urbanity of New Orleans. After her husband's death she returned to New Orleans only to be rejected by her family for having married a Yankee. She moved to Vineland, New Jersey, where she raised her children. Having lived long enough to give me a christening present and dying in the flu epidemic of 1918, of all her contemporaries in this book she is the one I would like most to meet.
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Contents
Introduction
11
I. Quartermaster Conway's Rebellion Against Rebellion
13
II. The Fight at the Head of the Passes
23
III. The Rescue from the Governor
39
IV. Shakedown CrusieThe Ordeal of the Vermont
47
V. The Battle of Hatteras Inlet
57
VI. The Navy, the Navy Yard and General Wool
67
VII. Friday SailingThe Misadventures of the Wabash
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