Lincoln takes command : the campaign to seize Norfolk and the destruction of the CSS Virginia /

The first study to detail the important week in March 1862 when, for the first and only time in the country's history, a sitting president took direct control of military forces, land and sea, to wage a campaign with wide-ranging consequences. Abraham Lincoln ordered a beach-landing to capture...

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Main Author: Norder, Steven (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: El Dorado Hills, California : Savas Beatie, [2019]
Edition:First edition.
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