Coastal Operations in the American Civil War, Kevin Dougherty.

Coastal Operations in the American Civil War, Kevin Dougherty.

 Looks at the Federal efforts to close the Confederate coast by capturing or blocking every port on the Southern coast, a campaign that was designed at the start of the war by the Navy Board and that lasted until almost the end of the conflict. An interesting study of combined arms operations and the problems that could be caused when two services cooperated on operations without any firm rules in place.
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