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Confederate States of America. Navy History Gooding, James Henry 1837-1864 H.L. Hunley (Submarine) Stephens, George E Submarines (Ships) United States History 19th century United States United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Naval operations United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Naval operations Fiction United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Naval operations, Confederate United States. Army. Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, 54th (1863-1865)Burgan, Michael.
Summary: Read about the famous Civil War battle between two armored ships.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Compass Point Books 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.75 BURLance, Rachel
Summary: "A story about a woman scientist's journey to discover a submarine"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2020
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Summary: "Big Bad Ironclad! covers the history of the amazing ironclad steam warships used in the Civil War. From the ship's inventor, who had a history of blowing things up and only 100 days to complete his project, to the mischievous William Cushing, who pranked his way through the whole war, this book is filled with surprisingly true facts and funny, brave characters that modern readers will easily...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2012
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Summary: Describes the activities of the raider Shenandoah, which targeted New England whaling fleets in its efforts to compromise Union economic strength and attempted an escape to England, an effort that affected international law.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.757 SCHThompson, Gare.
Summary: Discusses the Monitor and the Virginia, ironclad warships that confronted each other at the Civil War battle at Hampton Roads, Virginia, detailing what became of the ships after the battle and how the sunken Monitor was later investigated by scientists.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap 2003
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE THOSchooler, Lynn.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2005
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 973.757 SCHSymonds, Craig L.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LINCOLN, ABRAHAM SYMDuffy, James P.
Summary: Recently discovered primary source material sheds new light on Farragut's life and times. The first full admiral in American naval history, he was small in stature and almost sixty years old at the outbreak of the Civil War. Yet Farragut possessed enormous courage and stamina. He led by example and became an inspiration to the entire nation. Thoroughly researched and compellingly written,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wiley 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.75 DUFMcPherson, James M.
Summary: Recounts the naval campaigns of the Civil War, discussing the daring and innovation of the Confederate navy in sinking Union ships, and the Union navy's blockade of the Confederate coast and victories in some of the war's most strategic battles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of North Carolina Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 MCPKeith, Phil
Summary: Two award-winning historians bring to life the greatest Civil War battle at sea, which was fought off the coast of France in 1864 and effectively ended the threat of the Confederacy on the high seas.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 KEINelson, James L.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NELPoyer, David.
Summary: Reaching the agonizing decision to join the Confederate States Navy, abolitionist Lieutenant Ker Claiborne works to destroy a ship in order to undermine Union finances and experiences confrontations with fellow officers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC POYShaw, David W.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2004
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 973.757 SHAHicks, Brian
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2002
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 973.757 HICStonehouse, Frederick.
Contents: War objectives : North and South -- Political environment -- Navigation -- An industrial war -- Confederate Canadian team and mission -- Plots and more plots -- End game -- Courtenay Torpedo -- The shadow war : Union and Confederate secret operators -- The Lady Elgin, a precursor of war.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avery Color Studios 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 STOMcGinty, Brian
Summary: Independence Day, 1861. The schooner S. J. Waring sets sail from New York on a routine voyage to South America. Seventeen days later, it limps back into New York’s frenzied harbor with the ship's black steward, William Tillman, at the helm. While the story of that ill-fated voyage is one of the most harrowing tales of captivity and survival on the high seas, it has, almost unbelievably, been...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 MCGWalker, Sally M.
Summary: For more than 100 years, the H. L. Hunley submarine lay buried beneath the ocean floor near Charleston, South Carolina. It made history in 1864 as the first submarine ever to sink an enemy ship, but something went wrong during that mission and the submarine never returned to port. How the submarine came to be on the ocean floor, how she came to leave it, and what happened next make up one of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Carolrhoda Books 2005
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.757 WALPoyer, David.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC POYJerome, Kate Boehm.
Summary: Recounts events surrounding the mysterious sinking of the Confederate submarine, the H.L. Hunley, and its recent recovery from deep in the waters off the coast of South Carolina.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap 2002
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 973.7 JERFox, Stephen R.
Summary: Follows the distinguished military career of Confederate sea captain Raphael Semmes, commander of the CSS Alabama, following his wartime exploits as he became a cornerstone of the Confederate Navy, until the Alabama was sunk at Cherbourg, France, in 1864.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 FOXDe Kay, James T.
Summary: The history of the Confederates plans to build a navy with the covert aid of the British. The plan culminated in the building of the C.S.S. Alabama.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.757 DEKShepard, Ray Anthony
Summary: Here is the riveting dual biography of two little-known but extraordinary men in Civil War history George E. Stephens and James Henry Gooding. These Union soldiers not only served in the Massachusetts 54th Infantry, the well-known black regiment, but were also war correspondents who published eyewitness reports of the battlefields. Their dispatches told the truth of their lives at camp, their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Calkins Creek, An Imprint of Highlights 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 973.7 SHEStahr, Walter
Summary: "Walter Stahr, author of the ... bestseller Seward, now tells the amazing story of Lincoln's secretary of war, Edwin Stanton, the most powerful and controversial of the men close to the president. Stanton raised an army of a million men and directed it from his Washington telegraph office, with Lincoln often at his side. He arrested and imprisoned thousands for "war crimes," some serious and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017