Author: SCHARF, J. Thomas
Title: History of the Confederate States Navy from Its Organization to the Surrender of Its Last Vessel
Description: N.p. The Fairfax Press, 1977. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue paper over boards with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. vii, 824pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Very good/very good. Faint jacket edgewear; small abrasion on front flyleaf. A tight and quite nice facsimile reprint of the 1887 first edition of this thick study (New York: Rogers & Sherwood), which Thomas Wells critiques as "The best on its subject in spite of the inclusion of some unevaluated or conflicting opinions by participants." NEVINS I, 233. .

Keywords: Civil War Nautical


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