A History of the Confederate Navy

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Discusses the quite a lot of influences at the Confederate decision to organize a navy, and the administration of their sea fighters, including chronologies and personal profiles
A History of the Confederate Navy is definitely one of the only necessary book at the U.S. Civil War that was once first written in Italian and then translated into English. Nonetheless, historian Raimondo Luraghi offers the fullest account to this point of the South’s naval activity. He challenges the preferred notion that the Confederate navy was once a failure because it did not break the North’s blockade. Busting the blockade was once not its main goal, Luraghi argues. As a substitute, the Confederate navy primarily wanted to prevent an amphibious invasion of the South–a mission in which it mostly succeeded. This particular interpretation is disputable, but the facts and figures of Luraghi’s history aren’t. He shows how an agrarian people built a navy that managed to continue fighting several months after Lee’s give up at Appomattox, and at the whole made a good showing at the seas against an industrial superpower.

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