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1 online resource (343 pages)
ISBN:
9780199718719
Inhalt:
Co-winner of the 2009 Lincoln Prize, Lincoln and His Admirals, provides an original account of how Lincoln managed the men who ran the naval side of the Civil War, and how the activities of the Union Navy affected the course of the war.Abraham Lincoln began his presidency as well as the war with virtually no knowledge of naval affairs, lacking both exposure and interest given his upbringing in the Midwest. Despite his inexperience, he quickly came to preside over the largest national armada of the century, not eclipsed until World War I. Craig L. Symonds demonstrates the larger political and diplomatic impact of naval operations and offers fresh insight into Lincoln's overall strategic vision, showing how it ultimately determined the outcome of the war and the young nation's fate.
Inhalt:
Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1861 Getting Under Way -- 1 "What Have I Done Wrong?": Lincoln and the Fort Sumter Crisis -- 2 "A Competent Force" Lincoln and the Blockade -- 3 "No Affront to the British Flag" Lincoln and the Trent Affair -- 1862 charting a course -- 4 "Rain the Rebels Out" Lincoln and the River War -- 5 "It Strikes Me There's Something in It" Lincoln and the Monitor -- 6 "We Cannot Escape History" Lincoln and the Contrabands -- 1863 Troubled Waters -- 7 "The Peninsula All Over Again" Lincoln, Charleston, and Vicksburg -- 8 "I Shall Have to Cut This Knot" Lincoln as Adjudicator -- 9 "Peace Does Not Appear So Distant as It Did" Lincoln and Wartime Politics -- 1864 Full Speed Ahead -- 10 "A Worthy Object" Lincoln and the Red River Campaign -- 11 "A Vote of Thanks" Lincoln and the Politics of Promotion -- 12 "I Must Refer You to General Grant" Lincoln Relinquishes the Conn -- 1865 Final Harbor -- Epilogue "Thank God That I Have Lived to See This" Lincoln and the End of the War -- Abbreviations Used in Notes -- Notes -- Index -- Footnotes -- ch01fn -- ch02fn -- ch03fn -- ch04fn -- ch05fn -- ch06fn -- ch07fn -- ch08fn -- ch09fn -- ch10fn -- ch11fn -- ch12fn -- epifn.
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ISBN 9780195310221
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Print version Lincoln and His Admirals
Sprache:
Englisch
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