The hunt for the Albemarle : anatomy of a gunboat war
Independent scholar and retired Air Force colonel Hinds tells the tale of a war conducted in the inlets and sounds of eastern North Carolina during the Civil War. The text focuses on the strategies of Confederate Navy Lieutenant James Cooke, who commanded the 150-foot ironclad gunboat Albemarle and Union Navy Lieutenant Charles Flusser, whose forces failed to find and destroy the gunboat before it could be completed. The volume concludes with a description of the Confederate victory at the Battle of Plymouth (April 1864). Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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