Download or read book The Alabama and the Kearsarge written by William Marvel and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2000-11-09 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On June 19, 1864, the Confederate cruiser Alabama and the USS Kearsarge faced off in the English Channel outside the French port of Cherbourg. About an hour after the Alabama fired the first shot, it began to sink, and its crew was forced to wave the white flag of surrender. Working with personal papers and diaries and contemporary reports, historian William Marvel interweaves the stories of these two celebrated Civil War warships, from their construction to their climactic encounter off Cherbourg. Just as importantly, he illuminates the day-to-day experiences of their crews. From cabin boys to officers, sailors have been one of the most ignored groups of the Civil War. The sailors' lot was one of constant discomfort and monotony, interspersed with riotous frolics ashore and, occasionally, a few minutes of intense excitement and danger. Housed in damp, crowded quarters, their wartime mortality rate did not reach that of their army counterparts, but service-connected diseases shortened their postwar lives disproportionately. Most of the crewmen ended their lives in nameless obscurity, and their story has remained unwritten until now.

Download or read book Mount Kearsarge and Mount Pequawket New Hampshire written by United States Geographic Board and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book An Englishman s View of the Battle Between the Alabama and the Kearsarge written by Frederick Milnes Edge and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book An Englishman s View of the Battle between the Alabama and the Kearsarge written by Frederick Edge and published by Litres. This book was released on 2021-03-16 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Story of the Kearsarge and Alabama written by A. K. Browne and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book CSS Alabama vs USS Kearsarge written by Mark Lardas and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-11-20 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most successful commerce raider of the Civil War, the CSS Alabama almost single-handedly drove United States merchant shipping from the seas. Her illustrious career saw the capture of 60 merchant ships and two duels with ships of the US Navy. This book gives the complete story of the development of the Confederacy's commerce raiding force and the ships the Union set against them. Compiled from numerous first-hand accounts as well as archeological evidence, it covers the three famous battles of the commerce raiders, CSS Florida vs. USS Wachusett, CSS Alabama vs. USS Hatteras, and CSS Alabama vs. USS Kearsarge, analyzing the strengths and weakness of each of the combatants. While the American Civil War is usually considered a land war, there was plenty of blood in the water.

Download or read book The Famous Cruise of the Kearsarge written by Henry S. Hobson and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Constitution and Guerriere Lake Erie Monitor and Merrimac Kearsarge and Alabama Mobile bay Lissa Augames Manila Bay Santiago written by Edward Kirk Rawson and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book King of Kearsarge written by Arthur Olney Friel and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Manet and the American Civil War written by Juliet Wilson-Bareau and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2003 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "On June 19, 1864, the United States warship Kearsarge sank the Confederate raider Alabama off the coast of Cherbourg, France, in one of the most celebrated naval engagements of the American Civil War. When Kearsarge later anchored off the French resort town of Boulogne-sur-Mer it was thronged by curious visitors, one of whom was the artist Edouard Manet. Although he did not witness the historic battle, Manet made a painting of it partly as an attempt to regain the respect of his colleagues after having been ridiculed for his works in the 1864 Salon. Manet's picture of the naval engagement and his portrait of the victorious Kearsarge belong to a group of his seascapes of Boulogne whose unorthodox perspective and composition would profoundly influence the course of French painting." "Manet's paintings and watercolors related to the battle are considered in depth alongside numerous prints, photographs, letters, and archival newspaper illustrations that illuminate the history of the episode and in some cases dispel lingering misconceptions. Manet's other Boulogne seascapes are also discussed in terms of their complex chronology and evolution. A final chapter touches on some of the sources for the seascapes - from Old Master paintings to Japanese woodblock prints - and traces the influence of the seascapes on such artists as Gustave Courbet, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, and Claude Monet."--BOOK JACKET.

Download or read book The Keel of the Kearsarge written by James Lowe Pilling and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Kearsarge Alabama Battle written by Francis Boardman Crowninshield Bradlee and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Alabama Kearsarge Battle written by William Morrison Robinson and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book On the Old Kearsarge written by Cyrus Townsend Brady and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Seismic Recording in Eastern California of the KEARSARGE Nuclear Test written by John J. Cipar and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A temporary ten-station seismic network was operated in eastern California to record the KEARSARGE nuclear test at the Nevada Test Site. Data from 8 three-component, short-period stations and 2 three-component, mid-period stations are presented. Part of the array was arranged as a profile between 150 to 250 km from NTS. At these ranges, the first arrivals are Pn waves refracted along the crust-mantle boundary. The Pn travel times can be modeled by assuming a 32-km thick crust at NTS, which as a 3° westward dip beginning approximately 90 km west of the shot point. This model predicts a crustal thickness of 41.8 km at a point 277 km west of the shot point (that is, under the central Sierra Nevada). This model is in good agreement with the models of Eaton and of Pakiser and Brune and contrary to the model of Carder et al and Carder. There still remain significant offsets in the Carder et al NTS travel-time data in the 250 to 270 km and 360 to 390 km distance ranges. Closely-spaced, digitally-recorded observations in those distance ranges are needed to completely resolve the seismic structure of the Sierra Nevada-Basin and Range transition zone.

Download or read book The Silurian of the Kearsarge Area California written by Roy Harold Waite and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Granite Monthly written by Henry Harrison Metcalf and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains articles on the White Mountains and a map.