Gray Raiders of the Sea - Confederate Commerce Raiders in the Civil War

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Gray Raiders of the Sea - Confederate Commerce Raiders in the Civil War:
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Gray Raiders of the Sea
How Eight Confederate Warships
Destroyed the Union High Seas Commerce

By Chester Hearn
Published byLouisiana State University Press, : Paperback : VeryGood or Better - seems unread.
Slight wear to edges from being in storage with other books.351 pages, heavily illustrated, align=\"center\">Covers the Confederate States Warships :
Sumter, Nashville, Florida, Tallahassee,
Alabama, Georgia, Shenandoah, and With all the massive land battles involved in the American Civil War, many people often neglect the naval aspects of the conflict. Blockade actions, coastal amphibious campaigns, and commerce raiding all played a large role in the war as both North and South strove to carry the fight to the seas. The Confederacy possessed no navy at the start of the conflict and suffered from a lack of skilled shipbuilders, construction facilities, and basic materials to build a fleet. Obviously, the South could not match the Union Navy in size. As the United States Navy slowly formed a blockade around Southern ports, the Confederates started using commerce raiders to strike offensively at the North on the oceans. The South could only build and provision a few number of raiders, but these ships inflicted large losses on the Northern merchant fleet and generated hysteria far out of proportion to their numbers. The Union Navy already had its resources stretched in trying to blockade hundreds of miles of Southern coast and struggled to suppress the raiders’ activities. In Gray Raiders of the Sea, Chester Hearn provides an action-packed account of eight commerce raiders that tormented the United States government throughout the war. According to Hearn, these eight vessels distracted numerous ships from blockade duty and damaged the Northern merchant fleet so severely that it took decades for it to fully recover.

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