Lamson of the Gettysburg: The Civil War Letters of Lieutenant Roswell H. Lamson, U.S. Navy Tapa dura - 1997
de Roswell Hawks Lamson; Patricia R. McPherson (Editor); James M. McPherson (Editor)
Roswell H. Lamson was one of the boldest and most skillful young officers in the Union navy, commanding more ships and flotillas than any other officer of his age or rank. In this collection of letters, the major naval action of the Civil War comes to life. 16 halftones.
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Roswell Lamson was one of the boldest and most skillful young officers in the Union navy. Second in the class of 1862 at Annapolis (he took his final exam while at sea during the war), he commanded more ships and flotillas than any other officer of his age or rank in the service, climaxed by his captaincy of the navy's fastest ship in 1864, USS Gettysburg. Now, in Lamson of the Gettysburg, we have the wartime letters of this striking naval figure. Throughout the war, Lamson always seemed to be where the action was on the South Atlantic coast, and these letters describe with striking immediacy the part he played in these events. While serving on the USS Wabash, for instance, he directed the big deck guns that did the most damage to enemy forts at Hatteras Inlet and Port Royal, two major naval victories. He was the officer who took command of the CSS Planter in May 1862, when slaves led by Robert Smalls ran her past Confederate fortifications in Charleston harbor and delivered her to the Union fleet. He commanded a gunboat fleet on the Nansemond River that helped stop James Longstreet's advance on Norfolk. In a daring attempt to blow up Fort Fisher, the huge earthwork fortress that guarded the entrance into the Cape Fear River, he towed the USS Louisiana (packed with more than two hundred tons of gunpowder) directly under the guns of the fort, sneaking into the shallows behind a rebel blockade runner. And a few weeks later, he led a contingent of seventy men from the Gettysburg as part of the January 15, 1865, assault on the seaface parapets of Fort Fisher, where he himself was wounded and his close friend, Samuel W. Preston, died. The letters also capture the spirited personality of Lamson himself, resolved to "stand by the Union as long as there is a plank afloat".
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- Título Lamson of the Gettysburg: The Civil War Letters of Lieutenant Roswell H. Lamson, U.S. Navy
- Autor Roswell Hawks Lamson; Patricia R. McPherson (Editor); James M. McPherson (Editor)
- Encuadernación Tapa dura
- Edición First Edition
- Páginas 272
- Volúmenes 1
- Idioma ENG
- Editorial Oxford University Press, USA, New York
- Fecha de publicación 1997-11-13
- ISBN 9780195116984 / 0195116984
- Peso 1.21 libras (0.55 kg)
- Dimensiones 9.8 x 6.43 x 1 pulgadas (24.89 x 16.33 x 2.54 cm)
- Nivel de lectura 1340
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Temas
- Chronological Period: 1851-1899
- Topical: Civil War
- Library of Congress subjects United States - History - Civil War,, United States - Biography
- Número de catálogo de la Librería del Congreso de EEUU 97011129
- Dewey Decimal Code 973.75
Reseñas en medios
Citas
- Booklist, 09/01/1997, Page 54
- Kirkus Reviews, 08/01/1997, Page 1192
- Library Journal, 11/15/1997, Page 0
- Publishers Weekly, 09/01/1997, Page 86
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