Mr Lincoln's Navy [Illustrated Edition]

Includes 19 Illustrations and 6 Maps.Mr. Lincoln's Navy, almost a non-existent force at the start of the war, achieved with marked success; the offshore blockade of the Confederacy, taking control of the Mississippi River, and the protection of Yankee commerce on the high seas. Richard West's comprehensive and well regarded study of how a fledgling force was transformed into the ironclad terrors of the Confederate coasts and rivers.Richard West Jr. was a noted author on the Maritime side of the American Civil War, writing successful biographies of Gideon Welles, head of the Union Navy Department and Admiral David Dixon Porter.