This Great Contest Afloat: The Civil War on the Seas, Coastline, Rivers, and Oceans (Chatelain) gift paired seasonal photographs

paired seasonal photographs

their communities allowed them to do so

Millions of refugees were dispersed across the continent

” institutions of dubious character that nevertheless served the military and domestic necessities of the Union army and Northern households

By Ron Kirkwood

This Great Contest Afloat: The Civil War on the Seas, Coastline, Rivers, and Oceans (Chatelain) gift paired seasonal photographsby Neil P. Chatelain Chatelain reveals how Civil War naval feats reshaped strategy, economy, and diplomacy across four theaters. History offers no example where so much was accomplished in so short a time, or where so many events were crowded into the space of four years, in which the Navy was employed subduing a coast over four thousand miles in length, and recapturing a river coast of more than five thousand miles, wrote Rear Admiral David Dixon