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Title: The Gulf and Inland Waters
The Navy in the Civil War. Volume 3.

Author: A. T. Mahan

Release Date: May 22, 2007 [EBook #21562]

Language: English

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THE NAVY
IN THE CIVIL WAR

THE GULF AND INLAND WATERS

BY
A.T. MAHAN
CAPTAIN U.S. NAVY

LONDON
SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON, & COMPANY, LTD.
St. Dunstan's House
FETTER LANE, FLEET STREET, E.C.
1898

Copyright, 1883, by Charles Scribner's Sons
for the United States of America

Printed by the Trow Directory, Printing and Bookbinding Company
New York, U.S.A.

PREFACE.

The narrative in these pages follows chiefly the official reports, and
it is believed will not be found to conflict seriously with them.
Official reports, however, are liable to errors of statement and
especially to the omission of facts, well know