Posted: 11/12/2012 10:00:09 PM EDT
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picked up a book at Barnes & Noble about this engagement. Interesting stuff, this period of history saw the emergence of the Ironclad warship and the end of the sailing warship. Since reading about this I've added a few more books to the Kindle to read on this subject.
CSS Alabama 
USS Kearsarge 
now if only I could find a decent read on the Confederate Marines |
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This is a good read as well. Sea of Gray: The Around-the-World Odyssey of the Confederate Raider Shenandoah by Tom Chaffin The only CSN ship to circumnavigate the globe and the last Confederate military unit to lower the CSA flag. I'll have to take a look at that one. The Shenandoah story is pretty interesting as well. The ship surrendered to the Brits in November 1865 after circumnavigating the globe. The only Confederate ship to do so |
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Quoted: picked up a book at Barnes & Noble about this engagement. Interesting stuff, this period of history saw the emergence of the Ironclad warship and the end of the sailing warship. Since reading about this I've added a few more books to the Kindle to read on this subject. CSS Alabama http://www.cityofart.net/bship/css_alabama_ptg.jpg USS Kearsarge http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/86/098617605.jpg now if only I could find a decent read on the Confederate Marines USS Kearsarge pic works for me if I quote your msg to make it visible, and then hilight the link to open in a new window. Else it just says 'USS Kearsarge' with no link or pic below. Just FYI, for some of the browsers some of us knuckledraggers may be using.  |
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picked up a book at Barnes & Noble about this engagement. Interesting stuff, this period of history saw the emergence of the Ironclad warship and the end of the sailing warship. Since reading about this I've added a few more books to the Kindle to read on this subject. CSS Alabama http://www.cityofart.net/bship/css_alabama_ptg.jpg USS Kearsarge http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/86/098617605.jpg now if only I could find a decent read on the Confederate Marines USS Kearsarge pic works for me if I quote your msg to make it visible, and then hilight the link to open in a new window. Else it just says 'USS Kearsarge' with no link or pic below. Just FYI, for some of the browsers some of us knuckledraggers may be using.
ok, let me see what else I can do |
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Quoted: It's possible the Navsource.org servers are being flakey.Quoted: I've got a pic of the 'Bama, and 2 below, the 2nd of which I assume is also the Kearsarge. I took down the first pic of the Kearsarge because just now all I got of it was a red x I generally host pix I link to in threads - in my media space on the ARF server, but that's just me. |
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The Shenandoah? I've always believed it was the Yankees that shot her down. http://www.noblecountyohio.com/shenandoah2.html |
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picked up a book at Barnes & Noble about this engagement. Interesting stuff, this period of history saw the emergence of the Ironclad warship and the end of the sailing warship. Since reading about this I've added a few more books to the Kindle to read on this subject. CSS Alabama http://www.cityofart.net/bship/css_alabama_ptg.jpg USS Kearsarge http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e8/USS_Kearsarge_%281861%29.jpg now if only I could find a decent read on the Confederate Marines So far as I know, the best work on the CSMC is a book called The Confederate Marine Corps: The Rebel Leathernecks, by Ralph Donnelly. Don't know how available it may be, though. Cpt. Redleg |