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The Clash of Arms and Technology for a Critical Region that Lasted the Entire American Civil War From the first shots at Cape Hatteras in the summer of 1861 to the fall of Fort Fisher in early 1865, the contest for coastal North Carolina during the American Civil War was crucial to the Union victory. With a clear naval superiority over the South, the North conducted blockading and amphibious operations from Virginia to Texas, including the three-hundred-mile seacoast of North Carolina. With its Pamlico and Albemarle Sounds—fed by navigable rivers that reached deep into the interior—and major Confederate port of Wilmington, the Carolina coast was essential for the distribution of foreign goods and supplies to Confederate forces in Virginia and elsewhere. If the Union was able to capture Wilmington or advance on the interior waters, they would cripple the South's war efforts. In Gunboats, Muskets, and Torpedoes: Coastal North Carolina, 1861–1865 , award-winning historian Michael G. Laramie chronicles both the battle over supplying the South by sea as well as the ways this region proved to be a fertile ground for the application of new technologies. With the advent of steam propulsio

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Author

Michael G. Laramie

Publisher

Westholme Publishing, LLC

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9781594163364

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Fiction, Military History