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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Norder, Steven (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	El Dorado Hills, California : Savas Beatie, [2019]
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Lincoln, Abraham, > 1809-1865. Virginia (Ironclad) United States. > Navy > History > Civil War, 1861-1865. Confederate States of America. > Navy > History. Hampton Roads, Battle of, Va., 1862.

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