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    Faces of the Civil War Navies: An Album of Human and Confederate Sailors
    Faces of the Civil War Navies: An Album of Human and Confederate Sailors
    Faces of the Civil War Navies: An Album of Human and Confederate Sailors
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    Faces of the Civil War Navies: An Album of Human and Confederate Sailors

    By Ronald S. Coddington and Craig L. Symonds

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    Explore the human side of the Civil War through archival images and biographical sketches of Confederate and Union sailors.

    During the American Civil War, more than one hundred thousand men fought on ships at sea or on one of America’s great inland rivers. There were no large-scale fleet engagements, yet the navies, particularly the Union Navy, did much to define the character of the war and affect its length. The first hostile shots roared from rebel artillery at Charleston Harbor. Along the Mississippi River and other inland waterways across the South, Union gunboats were often the first to arrive in deadly enemy territory. In the Gulf of Mexico and along the Atlantic seaboard, blockaders in blue floated within earshot of gray garrisons that guarded vital ports. And on the open seas, rebel raiders wreaked havoc on civilian shipping.

    In Faces of the Civil War Navies, Civil War photograph collector Ronald S. Coddington focuses his skills on the Union and Confederate navies. Using identifiable cartes de visite of common sailors on both sides of the war, many of them never before published, Coddington uncovers the personal histories of each individual. These unique narratives are drawn from military and pension records, letters, diaries, period newspapers, and other primary sources. In addition to presenting the personal stories of seventy-seven intrepid volunteers, Coddington also focuses on the momentous naval events that ushered in an era of ironclad ships and other technical innovations.

    Taken collectively, these “snapshots” show that the history of war is not merely a chronicle of campaigns won and lost, it is the collective personal odysseys of thousands of individual men.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateOct 30, 2016
    ISBN9781421421377
    Faces of the Civil War Navies: An Album of Human and Confederate Sailors
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    Ronald S. Coddington

    Ronald S. Coddington is editor and publisher of Military Images, a quarterly magazine dedicated to showcasing, interpreting and preserving Civil War portrait photography. He has previously written a series of five books about Civil War photography, published by The Johns Hopkins University Press, and articles for The New York Times, USA Today, Civil War Times, Civil War Monitor, the Civil War News, and other publications.

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