Category Navy
Admirals Farragut and Nimitz
Here’s Professor Craig Symonds at the 2023 Lincoln Forum in Gettysburg, PA, giving an excellent presentation comparing Admiral David G. Farragut and Admiral Chester Nimitz, pointing out leadership concepts and how character plays a role in leadership. The video’s description reads, “Historian Craig Symonds talked about the similarities and differences in leadership between Civil War Admiral […]
The War for the Union: The Organized War to Victory 1864-1865
This is the last volume in Professor Allan Nevins’s magnum opus, The Ordeal of the Union. This takes us from the beginning of 1864, including US Grant taking command of all United States armies, through to the end of the war. Initially, Grant wanted to stay in the West, and he wanted to make his […]
The War for the Union: The Organized War 1863-1864
This book by Allan Nevins is the penultimate volume in his series, The Ordeal of the Union. “From the outset,” Professor Nevins writes, “the antagonists had been aware of a fundamental difference in position. The North had to fight for a decisive victory in the field; for the destruction or hopeless crippling of the Confederate […]
How a Steamboat Saved a Confederate Army
This article comes from the June, 2023 issue of Civil War Times magazine. “On January 19, 1862, a Confederate army led by Brig. Gen. George B. Crittenden suffered a disastrous defeat at the Battle of Mill Springs. Fought in south-central Kentucky, the loss shattered the right flank of a defensive line that the Confederate army […]
Siege of Charleston 1863
In this video from the Emerging Civil War symposium, Professor Neil Chatelain discusses United States military actions in Charleston Harbor in 1863. The video’s description reads, “Historian Neil Chatelain discussed the Siege of Charleston Harbor in 1863, a combined naval and land assault, which he claims was a test of military and naval cooperation and […]
CWTR Episode 2003: Shipwrecked: A True Civil War Story of Mutinies, Jailbreaks, Blockade-Running, and the Slave Trade
In this episode, host Professor Gerald Prokopowicz and his guest, Professor Jonathan White, discuss Appleton Oaksmith, “the Forrest Gump of the slave trade.” The episode’s description reads, “Jonathan W. White, author of ‘Shipwrecked: A True Civil War Story of Mutinies, Jailbreaks, Blockade-Running, and the Slave Trade’”
How the South’s European Spymaster Built a Formidable Fleet That Challenged Union Naval Power
This article is from the January, 2021 issue of American History magazine. “Georgia native James Dunwoody Bulloch was of average height and build, with a slightly receding hairline atop bushy sideburns. However, Bulloch walked big. At night, as he stalked the cobbled streets of Liverpool, England, during the American Civil War, Bulloch’s emphatic footfalls made […]
Lessons Learned from the Battle of Mobile Bay in 1864
This article comes to us from the September, 2021 issue of Military History magazine. “By the summer of 1864 the three-year Union naval campaign to blockade Southern ports and choke off the Confederacy was at its zenith. Mobile, Ala., was one of only two major ports—along with Wilmington, N.C.—left to the Rebels. Tennessee-born David Glasgow Farragut […]
Winter Lecture Series 2023: George Dewey and the American Civil War
Here’s Ranger Karlton Smith giving a winter lecture on the future Commodore George Dewey of Manila Bay and his participation in the Civil War. The video’s description reads, “This program will explore the Civil War career of future admiral and victor of Manila Bay George Dewey. Join Ranger Karlton Smith and track Dewey’s experiences from […]
GNMP Winter Lecture 2022 – “Old Buck” The Life and Career of Admiral Franklin Buchanan, CSN
Here’s Karlton Smith giving a presentation on Franklin Buchanan, who was the first captain of the CSS Virginia. He has a ton of good information in this presentation. The video’s description reads, “Join Ranger Karlton Smith as he examines the U. S. Navy career of Franklin Buchanan. After making the decision to resign in 1861, […]
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