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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El Dorado Hills, California :
Savas Beatie,
[2019]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Monday, May 5 and Tuesday, May 6
- Wednesday, May 7
- Thursday, May 8
- Friday, May 9
- Saturday, May 10
- Sunday, May 11, 1862 "Norfolk in Our Possession"
- Monday, May 12, 1862 "A Brilliant Week's Campaign"
- Aftermath.