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Hardcover Chesapeake Bay in the Civil War Book

ISBN: 0870334794

ISBN13: 9780870334795

Chesapeake Bay in the Civil War

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Here is a rich panorama of fascinating Civil War history: the war's first deaths on the streets of Baltimore; Abraham Lincoln on the deck of the revenue cutter Miami; Franklin Buchanan of Talbot County commanding the ironclad C.S.S. Virginia as she sounds the death knell for the age of sail; Naval Academy instructor John Taylor Wood becoming one of the most feared Confederate raiders on the Bay; the P.O.W. camp at Point Lookout with its horrific death toll; the imprisonment of Jefferson Davis at Fort Monroe, the Gibraltar of the Chesapeake. Eric Mills's thoroughly readable narrative covers events in Chesapeake country during the months preceding the great conflict to shortly after the death of Lincoln.

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Rated 5 stars
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This excellent book fills a gap for those of us who are interested in the story of the Civil War. It is the first time the fascinating tale of the role of the Chesapeake Bay during those years has been documented. Eric Mills uses primary sources to relate the lively activities that took place in and around the estuaries, creeks, and rivers of the Bay. I highly recommend it both for the information it provides and for its...

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Rated 4 stars
A Broad, Regional Look at the Civil War

Miles does a decent job of exploring how the Civil War affected those who lived along both shores of the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries. Actually, the region covered includes a wide number of encounters and battles, as well as the capitals of both the Union (on the shore of the Potomac) and the Confederacy (on the shore of the James).The book opens with the early skirmishes in Maryland, notably the Pratt Street Riot in...

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Superb!

May 5, 1997. Received a copy of this splendid book Xmas 1996. Have already read it cover-to-cover three times. Have not met its superior for information and entertainment in more than 50 years of reading Civil War material. To those of us with "second homes" on Virginia's Eastern Shore (Chincoteague in this instance), it is a real eye-opener--and long overdue. Highest possible recommendation

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