"Book Review: The Civil War Navy in Florida " Topic
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Tango01 | 21 Jul 2015 1:03 p.m. PST |
"The Civil War in Florida is an area that is starting to receive more and more interest. In the past few years there have been several major academic works to be published including those by Zach Waters and also by Jonathan Sheppard. I have made my own small contribution to the literature on the state during the war. Historians often find source material thin and many times interest low. "Oh, nothing happened there" is often heard. An area that has been often ignored is the role of the Navy, both Union and Confederate, during the War. George Buker has written a very good book but it deals strictly with the Gulf Coast of Florida. Living historian and blogger Rob Mattson has written a book that helps fill in some of the gaps…" Full review here link Amicalement Armand |
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