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Glory in the Name : A Novel of the Confederate Navy Paperback - 2004
by James L. Nelson
- Used
- Good
- Paperback
From Hampton Roads to Roanoke Island, to an exciting, bloody nighttime river fight for New Orleans, "Glory in the Name" vividly brings to life the dramatic yet little known naval battles of the Civil War.
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Details
- Title Glory in the Name : A Novel of the Confederate Navy
- Author James L. Nelson
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 432
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers, US
- Date 2004
- Features Maps
- Bookseller's Inventory # G0060959053I3N00
- ISBN 9780060959050 / 0060959053
- Weight 0.82 lbs (0.37 kg)
- Dimensions 8.06 x 5.29 x 1.07 in (20.47 x 13.44 x 2.72 cm)
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Themes
- Topical: Civil War
- Topical: Family
- Library of Congress subjects Historical fiction, Sea stories
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2002029568
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Summary
Then call us Rebels if you will we glory in the name, for bending under unjust laws and swearing faith to an unjust cause, we count as greater shame. -- Richmond Daily Dispatch, May 12, 1862April 12, 1861. With one jerk of a lanyard, one shell arching into the sky, years of tension explode into civil war. And for those men who do not know in which direction their loyalty calls them, it is a time for decisions. Such a one is Lieutenant Samuel Bowater, an officer of the U.S. Navy and a native of Charleston, South Carolina.Hard-pressed to abandon the oath he swore to the United States, but unable to fight against his home state, Bowater accepts a commission in the nascent Confederate Navy, where captains who once strode the quarterdecks of the world's most powerful ships are now assuming command of paddle wheelers and towboats. Taking charge of the armed tugboat Cape Fear, and then the ironclad Yazoo River, Bowater and his men, against overwhelming odds, engage in the waterborne fight for Southern independence.
First line
Oil on canvas, in his signature fine brushstroke, Samuel Bowater painted the opening shot of the War for Southern Independence.