Download or read book Lincoln Takes Command written by Steve Norder and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2019-12-20 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed history of one week during the Civil War in which the American president assumed control of the nation’s military. One rainy evening in May, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln boarded the revenue cutter Miami and sailed to Fort Monroe in Hampton Roads, Virginia. There, for the first and only time in our country’s history, a sitting president assumed direct control of armed forces to launch a military campaign. In Lincoln Takes Command, author Steve Norderdetails this exciting, little-known week in Civil War history. Lincoln recognized the strategic possibilities offered by Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan’s ongoing Peninsula Campaign and the importance of seizing Norfolk, Portsmouth, and the Gosport Navy Yard. For five days, the president spent time on sea and land, studied maps, spoke with military leaders, suggested actions, and issued direct orders to subordinate commanders. He helped set in motion many events, including the naval bombardment of a Confederate fort, the sailing of Union ships up the James River toward the enemy capital, an amphibious landing of Union soldiers followed by an overland march that expedited the capture of Norfolk, Portsmouth, and the navy yard, and the destruction of the Rebel ironclad CSS Virginia. The president returned to Washington in triumph, with some urging him to assume direct command of the nation’s field armies. The week discussed in Lincoln Takes Command has never been as heavily researched or told in such fine detail. The successes that crowned Lincoln’s short time in Hampton Roads offered him a better understanding of, and more confidence in, his ability to see what needed to be accomplished. This insight helped sustain him through the rest of the war.

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Download or read book Military in Norfolk Virginia written by Source Wikipedia and published by University-Press.org. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 34. Chapters: Camp Allen, Carrier Strike Group Eight, Carrier Strike Group Ten, Carrier Strike Group Twelve, Carrier Strike Group Two, Naval Station Norfolk, United States Armed Forces School of Music, United States Fleet Forces Command. Excerpt: Carrier Strike Group Twelve, abbreviated CSG-12 or CARSTRKGRU 12, is a U.S. Navy carrier strike group currently assigned to the United States Fleet Forces Command. U.S. Navy carrier strike groups are employed in a variety of roles, all of which involve gaining and maintaining sea control as well as projecting power ashore. The current group flagship is the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CVN-65), which completed its 25 and final operational deployment prior to its scheduled decommissioning on 1 December 2012. Other units assigned to the strike group as of 2012 include Carrier Air Wing One, Destroyer Squadron 2, and the Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Vicksburg (CG-69) which is also scheduled to be decommissioned following the strike group's 2012 deployment. Effective 30 June 1973, Commander Cruiser Destroyer Flotilla Eight was re-designated as Commander Cruiser-Destroyer Group Eight (CCDG-8). Commander, Cruiser-Destroyer Group 8 subsequently served as the Immediate Superior-in-Command (ISIC) for the Saratoga, Dwight D. Eisenhower, and Theodore Roosevelt carrier battle groups which participated in such post-Cold War missions as Operation Southern Watch and Operation Deny Flight. In the Summer of 1992, the U.S. Navy instituted a concept which mandated greater task group integration of naval air and surface warfare assets into a more permanent carrier battle group structure. Instead of routinely changing the cruisers, destroyers, and frigates assigned to each carrier battle group, there was an attempt made to affiliate certain escorts more permanently with the carriers they...

Download or read book A Record of Events in Norfolk County Virginia from April 19th 1861 to May 10th 1862 with a History of the Soldiers and Sailors of Norfolk County Norfolk City and Portsmouth who Served in the Confederate States Army Or Navy written by John W. H. Porter and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book RECORD OF EVENTS IN NORFOLK CO written by John W. H. Porter and published by . This book was released on 2016-08-27 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book In Memoriam Francis H Smith Father and Founder of the Virginia Military Institute written by Virginia Military Institute. Academic Board and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Pacific Crucible War at Sea in the Pacific 1941 1942 Vol 1 The Pacific War Trilogy written by Ian W. Toll and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2011-11-14 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Northern California Book Award for Nonfiction "Both a serious work of history…and a marvelously readable dramatic narrative." —San Francisco Chronicle On the first Sunday in December 1941, an armada of Japanese warplanes appeared suddenly over Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and devastated the U.S. Pacific Fleet. Six months later, in a sea fight north of the tiny atoll of Midway, four Japanese aircraft carriers were sent into the abyss, a blow that destroyed the offensive power of their fleet. Pacific Crucible—through a dramatic narrative relying predominantly on primary sources and eyewitness accounts of heroism and sacrifice from both navies—tells the epic tale of these first searing months of the Pacific war, when the U.S. Navy shook off the worst defeat in American military history to seize the strategic initiative.

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Download or read book In Memoriam Francis H Smith Father and Founder of the Virginia Military Institute Born at Norfolk Va October 1 8 1812 Died at Lexington Va March 21 1890 written by Virginia Military Institute and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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