This book was written by Virgil Carrington Jones, published in 1961, the narrative is 428 pages and is illustrated with black and white photos and drawings. The River War, the second in a three volume work entitled The Civil War At Sea, covers the crucial, middle period of the Civil War from March, 1862, to August, 1863. Virgil Carrington Jones has chosen to work on a mural size canvas in which the chief centers of activity are the Monitor/Marrimac battle and the New Orleans and Vicksburg campaigns. Although The River covers the opening of the Mississippi and sundry occurrences on East coast rivers, it frequently digresses into such non fluvial arenas such as Charleston Harbor for the duel between Admiral Du Font's iron clad battleships and Fort Sumter, and out upon the high seas for certain experiences of the commerce raiders, John N. Maffitt of of the Florida and Semmes of the Alabama. Mr Jones carefully ran through the file of the New York Herald for March 1862 - 1863. He has examined a mass of letters, diaries and journals. He has leafed through several volumes of the official Navy records. From these, as well as secondary sources, he has extracted all kinds of interesting narratives that show how the participants in the war felt at the time. In stringing this material together, his prime concern has been to produce a work that is generally sound as history, but above all, is readable. This book is volume two of a three book set. This hard book is in very good, used condition, with a dust cover in good condition.

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