Auteur: Browning Jr. Robert M. Browning Jr.

In Lincoln s Trident, Coast Guard historian Robert M. Browning Jr. continues his magisterial series about the Union s naval blockade of the Confederacy during the American Civil War. Established by t …

A readable, exciting chronicle of the men and ships that ran federal naval blockades during the Civil War Within four weeks of the fall of Fort Sumter, President Abraham Lincoln had declared a blocka …

Examines naval logistics, tactics, and strategy employed by the Union blockade off the Atlantic coast of the Confederacy. …

An insightful, detailed, and invaluable account of daily life in the Union Navy On May 18, 1862, Henry Willis Wells wrote a letter to his mother telling her in clear terms, I am fighting for the Unio …