Gray Thunder: Exploits of the Confederate States Navy - Softcover

Campbell, R. Thomas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1572492775 ISBN 13: 9781572492776

Publisher: Burd Street Pr, 2002

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Book by Campbell, R. Thomas

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Readable if somewhat anecdotal, this history of the Confederate navy fills a useful gap, for only comprehensive general histories of Civil War naval activities do justice to the Confederacy's efforts to build a navy without having an industrial base--a feat comparable to making bricks without clay--and such books are few. Campbell covers, popularly but soundly, the high points of the Confederacy's various nautical undertakings: building ironclads to break the Union blockade or defend its harbors, running the blockade, and harassing Union merchant ships with a series of successful commerce raiders. Campbell's research is admirably up to date, including even the 1995 discovery of the remains of the CSS H. L. Hunley, the world's first successful submarine, off the mouth of the Charleston, S.C., harbor. What he has made of that research is a good addition to Civil War collections of just about any sort. Roland Green

About this edition

• Publisher: Burd Street Pr
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1572492775
• ISBN 13: 9781572492776
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 220