Here is a rich panorama of fascinating Civil War history: the war's first deaths on the streets of Baltimore; Abraham Lincoln on the deck of the revenue cutter Miami; Franklin Buchanan of Talbot County commanding the ironclad C.S.S. Virginia as she sounds the death knell for the age of sail; Naval Academy instructor John Taylor Wood becoming one of the most feared Confederate raiders on the Bay; the P.O.W. camp at Point Lookout with its horrific death toll; the imprisonment of Jefferson Davis at Fort Monroe, the Gibraltar ...
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Here is a rich panorama of fascinating Civil War history: the war's first deaths on the streets of Baltimore; Abraham Lincoln on the deck of the revenue cutter Miami; Franklin Buchanan of Talbot County commanding the ironclad C.S.S. Virginia as she sounds the death knell for the age of sail; Naval Academy instructor John Taylor Wood becoming one of the most feared Confederate raiders on the Bay; the P.O.W. camp at Point Lookout with its horrific death toll; the imprisonment of Jefferson Davis at Fort Monroe, the Gibraltar of the Chesapeake. Eric Mills's thoroughly readable narrative covers events in Chesapeake country during the months preceding the great conflict to shortly after the death of Lincoln.
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Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.
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Small 4to. Dark blue cloth spine with silver lettering and grey paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. xi, 315pp. Map frontispiece, illustrations. Fine/fine. A tight and pristine second printing of this focused study.
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Fine in Fine dust jacket. 0870334794. Book and unclipped DJ as new. Third printing 1999. No ownership or other marks. Not a remainder.; 8vo 8"-9" tall; 315 pages.
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Very good in very good dust jacket. DJ is in a plastic sleeve and has slight wear and soiling. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. xi, [1], 315, [1] p. Illustrations (Courtesy of the National Archives). Frontis map. Notes. Bibliography. Index. The author is a longtime journalist and historian. He has worked at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum and for the Historical Society of Talbot County.