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Confederate saboteurs : building the Hunley and other secret weapons of the Civil War / Mark K. Ragan.
- Title
- Confederate saboteurs : building the Hunley and other secret weapons of the Civil War / Mark K. Ragan.
- Author
- Ragan, Mark K.
- Publication
- College Station : Texas A&M University Press, [2015]
- ©2015
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Details
- Description
- 249 pages, 36 unnumbered pages : illustrations, maps; 25 cm.
- Summary
- Presents the untold story of the Singer corps. Poring through previously unpublished archival documents, Ragan also examines the complex personalities and relationships behind the Confederacy’s use of torpedoes and submarines.
- Series Statement
- Ed Rachal Foundation nautical archaeology series
- Uniform Title
- Project Muse UPCC books.
- Ed Rachal Foundation nautical archaeology series
- Subject
- Singer, Edgar Collins, 1825-1919
- Confederate States of America. Singer Secret Service Corps > Biography
- Confederate States of America. Singer Secret Service Corps > History
- Confederate States of America. Army > Officers > Biography
- H.L. Hunley (Submarine)
- 1861-1865
- Mechanical engineers > Biography
- Secret service > Confederate States of America > History
- United States > History > Naval operations > Submarine > Civil War, 1861-1865
- Genre/Form
- collective biographies.
- Biographies
- History
- Biographies.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-239) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Formation and deployment -- First torpedo strike and launching the Hunley -- Richmond invests in the Corps -- Losing the Hunley -- Operations throughout the Confederacy -- Taking the fight to the enemy.
- ISBN
- 9781623492786 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 1623492785 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9781623492793 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)
- 1623492793 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- ^^2014046006
- OCLC
- 897632475
- SCSB-12859645
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library