Actions for Sailing with Farragut : the Civil War recollections of Bartholomew Diggins
Sailing with Farragut : the Civil War recollections of Bartholomew Diggins / edited by George S. Burkhardt
- Author
- Diggins, Bartholomew, 1844-1917
- Published
- Knoxville : The University of Tennessee Press, [2016]
- Physical Description
- xxv, 241 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
- Additional Creators
- Burkhardt, George S., 1927-
- Series
- Contents
- Part I. Off to war -- To the Mississippi -- Fighting the forts: "The nois was teroble" -- New Orleans falls -- Part II. Vicksburg -- Ships battle "to no purpose" -- Can not crawl up hills -- A Rebel ram mortifies Federals -- Back down river -- Part III. Port Hudson -- Hard times -- Disaster -- Blocking the rivers -- Part IV. Mobile -- Waiting game -- The Ivanhoe saga -- "Damn the torpedoes" -- One against many -- Fort Morgan resists -- Part V. Home -- Epilogue.
- Subject(s)
- Diggins, Bartholomew, 1844-1917
- Farragut, David Glasgow, 1801-1870
- United States. Navy—Biography
- Hartford (Ship)—Biography
- Hartford (Ship)
- United States. Navy
- American Civil War (1861-1865)
- Mobile Bay, Battle of (Alabama : 1864)
- 1800-1899
- Medal of Honor—Biography
- Medal of Honor
- Military operations, Naval
- Mobile Bay, Battle of, Ala., 1864
- United States—History—Civil War, 1861-1865—Naval operations
- Mississippi River Valley—History—Civil War, 1861-1865
- Gulf Coast (U.S.)—History, Naval—19th century
- Alabama
- Mississippi River Valley
- United States
- United States—Gulf Coast
- United States—History—Civil War, 1861-1865—Personal narratives
- Genre(s)
- ISBN
- 9781621902089 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
1621902080 (hardcover ; alk. paper) - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-224) and index.
- Source of Acquisition
- Purchased with funds from the Lippincott Family Memorial Libraries Endowment in Memory of David and Carolyn Lippincott and James Lippincott ; 2018
- Endowment Note
- Lippincott Family Memorial Libraries Endowment in Memory of David and Carolyn Lippincott and James Lippincott
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