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The C.S.S. Florida: Her Building and Operations
Frank L. Owsley Jr
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Description for The C.S.S. Florida: Her Building and Operations
Paperback. This volume tells the dramatic account of a Confederate ship that did millions of dollars' damage to the US merchant marine fleet during the American Civil War. The book was originally published in 1965. Num Pages: 224 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTM; JWF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 180 x 143 x 15. Weight in Grams: 308.
Commerce raiders such as the Alabama and the Florida were a successful component of the Confederacy's naval campaign against the Union. Devices of a lesser navy, these surface cruisers prowled the coastal seas to engage and interrupt vital commerce of their better-equipped, more powerful adversary. The C.S.S. Florida, in just two cruises before her capture, inflicted significant damage to Union cargo and ships, estimated at more than USD 4,000,000. The Florida struggled from the beginning. It had to be financed by a break-away government and built by a neutral Britain, remain supplied by small, out-of-the-way ports of call, and continue ... Read more
Commerce raiders such as the Alabama and the Florida were a successful component of the Confederacy's naval campaign against the Union. Devices of a lesser navy, these surface cruisers prowled the coastal seas to engage and interrupt vital commerce of their better-equipped, more powerful adversary. The C.S.S. Florida, in just two cruises before her capture, inflicted significant damage to Union cargo and ships, estimated at more than USD 4,000,000. The Florida struggled from the beginning. It had to be financed by a break-away government and built by a neutral Britain, remain supplied by small, out-of-the-way ports of call, and continue ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University Alabama Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Alabama, United States
ISBN
9780817312817
SKU
V9780817312817
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Ref
99-15
About Frank L. Owsley Jr
Frank Lawrence Owsley, Jr. is professor emeritus of history at Auburn University and author of Struggled for the Gulf Borderlands: The Creek Indian War and the Battle of New Orleans, 1812-1815.
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