THE CIVIL WAR AT SEA: VOLUME I: THE BLOCKADERS with VOLUME II: THE RIVER WAR with VOLUME III: THE FINAL EFFORT

by Virgil Carrington Jones

$75 · Offered by L. W. Currey · No longer available

First edition

New York: Holt, Rinehart, Winston, 1960-1962 . Octavo, three volumes, illustrations, maps, endpaper maps, cloth. First editions. Jones's basic argument is, firstly, that the naval aspect of the Civil War has not received the attention due its importance, and, secondly, that a worse performance at sea by the North or a better performance by the South might have changed the outcome of the war. Volume two bound upside down,

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