Commanding lincoln's navy : union naval leadership during the civil war / stephen r. taaffe.2/22/2024 ![]() ![]() ![]() By April 1862, Rear Admiral Louis Goldsborough and his flotilla of junior officers “had sealed off almost the entire North Carolina coast to Confederate shipping, enabling the Navy to twist the blockade that much tighter.” David Glasgow Farragut captured New Orleans, and “deprived the Confederates of their largest city and all the resources it contained, and placed a good chunk of Louisiana under Union control.”īut it was not all calm winds and following seas for the blue jackets, especially when they were forced to fight on the brown waters of America’s heartland. That’s not to say all the Navy’s heroes pushed pencils. Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles, his assistant secretary Gustavus Fox and chief clerk William Faxon “formed the triumvirate that capably operated the Navy’s administrative machinery throughout the war.” Taaffe makes clear that early in the war the Union’s real naval heroes never walked a pitching deck or felt the spray of salt on their faces. Taaffe adopts this tactic to recount the evolution of the Union Navy into an efficiently run, strategically important engine of war that played an important role in the eventual defeat of the Confederacy. History as collective biography has been an accepted methodology since Plutarch in classical antiquity. Taaffe, Naval Institute Press, 2010, $37.95 ACW Book Review: Commanding Lincoln’s Navy CloseĬommanding Lincoln’s Navy: Union Naval Leadership During the Civil Warīy Stephen R. ![]()
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