- Description
- xiv, 430 p., [12] p. of plates : ill., ports.; 24 cm.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 407-416) and index.
- Contents
- 1861: GETTING UNDER WAY. "What have I done wrong?": Lincoln and the Fort Sumter crisis -- "A competent force": Lincoln and the blockade -- "No affront to the British flag": Lincoln and the Trent affair -- 1862: CHARTING A COURSE. "Rain and the rebels out": Lincoln and the River war -- "It strikes me there's something in it": Lincoln and the Monitor -- "We cannot escape history": Lincoln and the contrabands -- 1863: TROUBLED WATERS. "The peninsula all over again": Lincoln, Charleston, and Vicksburg -- "I shall have to cut this know": Lincoln as adjudicator -- "Peace does not appear so distant as it did": Lincoln and the wartime politics -- 1864: FULL SPEED AHEAD. "A worthy object": Lincoln and the Red River campaign -- "A vote of thanks" Lincoln and the politics of promotion -- "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.
- Call Number
- IKC 08-7728
- ISBN
- 0195310225 (alk. paper)
- 9780195310221 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2008004251
- OCLC
- 180753580
- Author
Symonds, Craig L.
- Title
Lincoln and his admirals : Abraham Lincoln, the U.S. Navy, and the Civil War / Craig L. Symonds.
- Imprint
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 407-416) and index.
- Research Call Number
IKC 08-7728