![]() ![]() ![]() In War on the Waters: The Union and Confederate Navies, 1861-1865, he urges a reexamination of the pivotal role played by naval forces in the course of the war and provides the best single-volume overview of the naval war to be printed in decades. McPherson, and he believes it is high time we reevaluate their influence. Yet the navies influenced the war out of all proportion to their size, argues one of the deans of the study of the war, James M. ![]() Occupying a fraction of the resources and manpower as the armies of the United States and the Confederacy, the navies have, aside from a stray mention of the fight between ironclads in Hampton Roads in 1862, the Battle of Mobile Bay in 1864, and the novelty of the story of the Hunley, customarily received scant attention in overview studies of the progress of the war. The conflict of the Union and Confederate navies during the American Civil War has always been a relatively understudied subject. ![]()
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