Download or read book The Last of the Blockade and the Fall of Fort Fisher Classic Reprint written by Francis P. B. Sands and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-07-23 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Last of the Blockade and the Fall of Fort Fisher As an acting ensign on that vessel I began my experiences inactive service in the war for the suppression of the rebellion. The need for supplies for the Confederate armies in the Carolinas and Virginia, and the great profit in cotton from the Southern States had brought forward from England a large number of daring spirits, who, for the great gain of the ventures and the excitement attending the traffic, were willing to dare the risks of blockade running; and month by month their numbers increased. Charleston and Wilmington were the principal objective points for such ventures, and as the numbers of the successful trips increased the Federal Government taxed every resource to multiply the number of vessels in front of those seaports, and off the many inlets along the Atlantic coast. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Last of the Blockade and the Fall of Fort Fisher written by Francis Preston Blair Sands and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Wilmington Campaign And The Battles For Fort Fisher written by Mark A. Moore and published by Da Capo Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 1999-07-21 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Full campaign and battle history of the largest combined operation in U.S. military history prior to World War II. By late 1864, Wilmington was the last major Confederate blockade-running seaport open to the outside world. The final battle for the port city's protector--Fort Fisher--culminated in the largest naval bombardment of the American Civil War, and one of the worst hand-to-hand engagements in four years of bloody fighting. Copious illustrations, including 54 original maps drawn by the author. Fresh new analysis on the fall of Fort Fisher, with a fascinating comparison to Russian defenses at Sebastopol during the Crimean War.
Download or read book Confederate Goliath written by Rod Gragg and published by . This book was released on 1994-05 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the winter 1864-1865 assault of Union forces on the Confederate stronghold of Fort Fisher, which guarded the port of Wilmington, North Carolina, detailing the men involved on both sides, the campaign, and the final Union victory
Download or read book On A Rising Tide written by Richard H. Triebe and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2008-03 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blockade runner Captain Wade McKay and the crew of the Atlantis battle the death choke of the Union naval blockade of Wilmington, North Carolina. Massive Fort Fisher stands as the lone guardian of the ships daring to run the blockade. Their mission is of the utmost importance because each precious cargo brought in means new life for the Confederacy. Knowing that the fall of Fort Fisher could hasten the end of the war, the Union army and navy launches a deadly assault to capture the fort and stop blockade running forever.
Download or read book Colonel Lamb s Story of Fort Fisher written by William Lamb and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book War on the Waters written by James M. McPherson and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2012-09-17 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although previously undervalued for their strategic impact because they represented only a small percentage of total forces, the Union and Confederate navies were crucial to the outcome of the Civil War. In War on the Waters, James M. McPherson has crafted an enlightening, at times harrowing, and ultimately thrilling account of the war's naval campaigns and their military leaders. McPherson recounts how the Union navy's blockade of the Confederate coast, leaky as a sieve in the war's early months, became increasingly effective as it choked off vital imports and exports. Meanwhile, the Confederate navy, dwarfed by its giant adversary, demonstrated daring and military innovation. Commerce raiders sank Union ships and drove the American merchant marine from the high seas. Southern ironclads sent several Union warships to the bottom, naval mines sank many more, and the Confederates deployed the world's first submarine to sink an enemy vessel. But in the end, it was the Union navy that won some of the war's most important strategic victories--as an essential partner to the army on the ground at Fort Donelson, Vicksburg, Port Hudson, Mobile Bay, and Fort Fisher, and all by itself at Port Royal, Fort Henry, New Orleans, and Memphis.
Download or read book The Sand Castle written by Margaret Whitman Blair and published by White Mane Publishing Company. This book was released on 2005-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jamie, Rob, and Sarah travel to Wilmington, North Carolina, in 1864, where Jamie hopes to prevent the shipwreck that took the life of pretty Madeline Manon, the daughter of a blockade runner and his friend from a previous trip in time.
Download or read book The Wilmington Campaign written by Chris Eugene Fonvielle and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing coverage of both battles for Fort Fisher, this book includes a detailed examination of the attack and defence of Fort Anderson. It also features accounts of the defence of the Sugar Loaf Line and of the operations of Federal warships on the Cape Fear River.
Download or read book The Narrative of a Blockade runner written by J. Wilkinson and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Capture of Fort Fisher Classic Reprint written by Newton Martin Curtis and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-21 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Capture of Fort Fisher Fort Fisher commanded the last gateway between the Confederate States and the outside world. Its capture with the resulting loss of all the Cape Fear River defences, and of Wilmington, the great importing depot of the South, effectually ended all blockade running. Lee sent me word that Fort Fisher must be held or he could not subsist his army. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Confederate Goliath written by Rod Gragg and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2006-04-15 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: P>The only comprehensive account of the Battle of Fort Fisher and the basis for the television documentary Confederate Goliath, Rod Gragg's award-winning book chronicles in detail one of the most dramatic events of the American Civil War. Known as "the Gibraltar of the South," Fort Fisher was the largest, most formidable coastal fortification in the Confederacy, by late 1864 protecting its lone remaining seaport -- Wilmington, North Carolina. Gragg's powerful, fast-paced narrative recounts the military actions, politicking, and personality clashes involved in this unprecedented land and sea battle. It vividly describes the greatest naval bombardment of the war and shows how the fort's capture in January 1865 hastened the South's surrender three months later. In his foreword, historian Edward G. Longacre surveys Gragg's work in the context of Civil War history and literature, citing Confederate Goliath as "the finest book-length account of a significant but largely forgotten episode in our nation's most critical conflict."
Download or read book The Last Ninety Days of the War in North Carolina written by Cornelia Phillips Spencer and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tales and Traditions of the Lower Cape Fear 1661 1896 written by James Sprunt and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Glory at Wilmington written by Chris Fonvielle, Jr. and published by NC Starburst Press. This book was released on 2020-02 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Last Stronghold written by Richard B. McCaslin and published by Civil War Campaigns and Comman. This book was released on 2003 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The busy port of Wilmington, North Carolina, was a key city linking the Confederacy to the goods and the weapons merchants of Europe and the world. By late 1864, the port city had become an important target for Federal military leaders. To keep the city from falling, the Confederacy relied on a strong system of fortifications, the most formidable of which was Fort Fisher. The Federal Army in late 1864 and early 1865 made the fort the target of the largest amphibious operation prior to World War II. The successful reduction of the post sounded the knell for the brief life of the Confederacy and brought to a close one of the most interesting eras in Wilmington history.
Download or read book Upon A Rising Tide written by Richard H. Triebe and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2011-03-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Upon A Rising Tide is exciting historical fiction set in Civil War Wilmington, NC, and Fort Fisher. Blockade-runner Captain Wade McKay battles the death choke of the Union naval blockade. Massive Fort Fisher stands as the lone guardian of the ships daring to run the blockade. Their mission is of the utmost importance because each precious cargo brought in means new life for the Confederacy. Knowing that the fall of Fort Fisher could hasten the end of the war, the Union army and Navy launch a deadly assault to capture the fort and stop blockade running forever. Upon A Rising Tide has suspense, adventure, romance, murder and battles on land and sea.
