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Invasion and conquest of North Carolina : anatomy of a gunboat war / John W. Hinds.

Title
Invasion and conquest of North Carolina : anatomy of a gunboat war / John W. Hinds.
Author
Hinds, John W., 1923-
Publication
Shippensburg, Pa. : Burd Street Press, c1998.

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Description
xii, 299 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Summary
From the moment Southern-born Naval Academy graduate Lieutenant Charles Williamson Flusser stepped aboard his first command, the USS Commodore Perry became an extension of the fire in his belly to carry the Civil War to his fellow Southern-born shipmates serving in the Confederate States Navy. Flusser fought his ship with distinction during the battles of Roanoke Island and Elizabeth City, North Carolina and soon gained grudging admiration among the citizenry for navigating his 700-ton, former Staten Island ferry boat where no steamer had gone before. Some claimed he operated his "double ender" gunboat on "a wet sponge or a heavy dew."--
Subject
  • 1800-1899
  • Gunboats > History > 19th century
  • North Carolina > Naval operations. > Civil War, 1861-1865
  • United States > Naval operations > Civil War, 1861-1865
  • North Carolina > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Personal narratives
  • United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Personal narratives
Genre/Form
  • History
  • Personal narratives
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 284-287) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
ISBN
1572490888 (alk. paper)
LCCN
^^^98007814^
OCLC
  • 39093515
  • SCSB-13386672
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library