![]() ![]() The author also devotes attention to naval leadership, logistics, and the development of new technologies in the epic struggle between North and South. ![]() In this admirably written, well researched study, McPherson examines not only the war’s famous naval engagements, but lesser-known operations along the Atlantic coast and inland waters. Yet, as McPherson cogently argues, navies played a crucial role in the Civil War. Union and Confederate navies have been the subject of several recent studies, but in general historians have devoted far less attention to naval forces than on land based military operations in that conflict. War on the Waters: The Union & Confederate Navies, 1861-1865, is a comprehensive account of naval operations during the American Civil War by prize-winning historian James McPherson. University of North Carolina Press, 2012. War on the Waters: The Union and Confederate Navies, 1861-1865 by James M. ![]()
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