Fire and Thunder: Exploits of the Confederate States Navy

This history of the Confederate States Navy quotes extensively from the correspondence, reports, and diary entries of the participants in the naval war. Topics include the privateers, the Mosquito Fleet, the ironclads Louisiana and Mississippi at the Battle of New Orleans, the raiders Tallahassee and Chickamauga , and the cruise of the Shenandoah around the world. Includes numerous maps, line drawings and engravings of ships, and b&w photos of sailors and officers. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.