From Cape Charles to Cape Fear: The North Atlantic Blockading Squadron during the Civil War

by Robert M. Browning Jr.

Overview

Examines naval logistics, tactics, and strategy employed by the Union blockade off the Atlantic coast of the Confederacy.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780817390990
Publisher:	University of Alabama Press
Publication date:	06/07/2016
Series:	Fire Ant Books
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	470
File size:	7 MB

About the Author

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.

Editorial 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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