Author: PORTER, David D.
Title: The Naval History of the CIVIL War
Description: Secaucus, NJ, Castle Books, 1984. Hardcover. 4to. Blue and grey paper over boards with black spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xvi, 843pp. Near fine/near fine. Tight and quite nice facsimile reprint of the massive 1886 first edition (New York: The Sherman Publishing Company), "Illustrated from Original Sketches Made by Rear-Admiral Walke and Others." According to Thomas Wells: "Comprehensive, partisan, egotistical, sometimes inaccurate, but always interesting." NEVINS I, 231. .

Keywords: Civil War Nautical


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