Blue & Gray at Sea Naval Memoirs of the Civil War

by Thomsen, Brian M.; Thomsen, Brian M.

• ISBN13: 9780765308962
• ISBN10: 0765308967
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-12-01
• Publisher: Forge

Summary

Excerpted memoirs included are: -Incidents and Anecdotes of the Cival Warby Admiral Porter, including sections dealing with the political schism of the navy at the war's outbreak, as well as accounts of various naval campaigns around the gulf. -Recollections of a Rebel Reeferby James Morris Morgan , the memoir of a midshipman's coming of age in the Confederate navy including his part in the retreat further south of CSA President Jefferson Davis and his family. -Autobiography of George Dewey, Admiral of the Navyby Admiral George Dewey who, while a wet-behind-the-ears lieutenant, served under the legendary naval master and Lincoln's Admiral David Farragut. -Two years on the Alabamaby Arthur Sinclair -CSS Shenandoah: The Memoirs of LT. Commanding James I. Waddell

Author Biography

Brian M. Thomsen is a Tor Consulting editor who dropped out of pursuing a Ph.D. in English in favor of a career in publishing. He was one of the founding editors of Warner/Popular Library's Questar Science Fiction & Fantasy line, and the editor of C.J.Cherryh's Hugo Award winning novel Cyteen. He has also been a Hugo nominee, has served as a World Fantasy Award judge, and is the author of two novels and numerous short stories for such publishers as Tor, Daw, Ace, TSR, and others.

He was born in the borough of Brooklyn where he currently resides with his wife, Donna, and two talented cats named Sparky and Minx.

Table of Contents

Editor's Note	9	(2)
Memoirs	11	(266)
"The Beginning of the Civil War to the Battle of Port Hudson"
from The Autobiography of George Dewey, Admiral of the Navy
by Admiral George Dewey (retired)	13	(48)
"Incidents from the Life of a Blockade Runner"
from Recollections of a Rebel Reefer
by James Morris Morgan	61	(36)
"The Secession of South Carolina" and "The Siege of Vicksburg"
from Incidents and Anecdotes of the Civil War
by Admiral David Dixon Porter	97	(96)
"The Campaign in the Gulf of Mexico and Southward"
from Two Years on the Alabama
by Arthur Sinclair	193	(53)
"The Port Hudson Campaign"
from Forty-five Years Under the Flag
by Winfield Scott Schley	246	(31)
Journals, Logs, Letters, Reports, and Articles	277	(116)
"Documents of CSS Shenandoah"
by James Waddell	279	(66)
Journal Excerpts and Letters
from The Life of David Glasgow Farragut
by Loyall Farragut	345	(48)
The Monitor	393	(24)
"Captain Eggleston's Narrative of the Battle of the Merrimac"
by John R. Eggleston	395	(10)
"Notes on the Monitor-Merrimac Fight"
by Dinwiddie B. Phillips, surgeon of the Merrimac	405	(3)
"In the Monitor Turret"
by Commander S. D. Greene	408	(9)
The Hunley	417	(28)
"Official Documents Relating to the Sinking of the USS Housatonic by the CSS Hunley"	419	(26)
Published Source Materials	445

Supplemental Materials

What is included with this book?

The New copy of this book will include any supplemental materials advertised. Please check the title of the book to determine if it should include any access cards, study guides, lab manuals, CDs, etc.

The Used, Rental and eBook copies of this book are not guaranteed to include any supplemental materials. Typically, only the book itself is included. This is true even if the title states it includes any access cards, study guides, lab manuals, CDs, etc.

Rewards Program

Currently unavailable