Union Combined Operations in the Civil War / / ed. by Craig L. Symonds.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
• MitwirkendeR: DuCoin, Francis J.,; Fisher, John P.,; Fonvielle, Chris E.,; Fuller, Howard J.,; Long, David E.,; Sheridan, Robert E.,; Skaggs, David C.,; Snell, Mark A.,; Symonds, Craig L.,; Wiser, Edward H.,
• HerausgeberIn: Symonds, Craig L.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2022]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: The North's Civil War
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (240 p.) :; 6 Illustrations, black and white

Despite a wealth of books on the campaigns of the American Civil War, the subject of combined or joint operations has been largely neglected. This revealing book offers ten case studies of combined Army–Navy operations by Union forces. Presented in chronological order, each essay illuminates an aspe...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Abbreviations Used in the Notes
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1 Burnside When He Was Brilliant: Ambrose Burnside and Union Combined Operations in Pamlico Sound
• 2 A Thorn, Not a Dagger: Strategic Implications of Ambrose Burnside’s North Carolina Campaign
• 3 ‘‘Very Crude Notions on the Subject’’: William B. Franklin’s Amphibious Assault at Eltham’s Landing
• 4 The Union Attack at Drewry’s Bluff: An Opportunity Lost
• 5 Union Combined Operations on the Texas Coast, 1863–64
• 6 Assailing Satan’s Kingdom: Union Combined Operations at Charleston
• 7 Grant Moves South: Combined Operations on the James River, 1864
• 8 Closing Down the Kingdom: Union Combined Operations Against Wilmington
• 9 ‘‘The Absence of Decisive Results’’: British Assessments of Union Combined Operations
• 10 Union Combined Operations in the Civil War: Lessons Learned, Lessons Forgotten
• List of Contributors
• Index