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Lincoln and His Admirals
Abraham Lincoln began his presidency admitting that he knew "but little of ships," but he quickly came to preside over the largest national armada to that time, not eclipsed until World War I. Written by naval historian Craig L. Symonds, Lincoln and His Admirals unveils an aspect of Lincoln's presidency unexamined by historians until now, revealing how he managed...more
Hardcover, 448 pages
Published
October 20th 2008
by Oxford University Press, USA
(first published June 2008)
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This is an interesting volume, exploring Abraham Lincoln's admirals, his role in naval decision making, and the effectiveness of strategic and tactical decisions using the navy. In the process, we learn about some of the more important naval leaders. We learn of the team: Lincoln and his top naval advisors Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles and his Assistant Secretary Gustavus Fox. The author notes (Page xiii): "One of the themes of this book is to demonstrate not only how Lincoln managed ...more
Interesting examination of the personalities and issues involving the Navy during the Civil War. This is not a battle account - battles are mentioned more in passing than in detail. And since the Civil War was predominantly a land war, the Navy gets relatively little historical attention - the author spends almost as much time on several of Lincoln's generals as he does on Lincoln's admirals, and the major strategies and land campaigns are explained as well as the relatively fewer naval campai...more
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One of the books that I am currently reading. Symonds' analysis is crisp and concise, yet with each page I am learning new things about Lincoln I never knew before. His involvement in the Navy, albeit more focused on the ground war.
More about Lincoln than his admirals, this is still one of the best surveys of the Union Navy available, and a must for scholars of American naval and Civil War history.
In this frequently overlooked aspect of the Civil War, Symonds has effectively demonstrated still another measure of Lincoln's genius.
Yes, I have finished this book. A good look/overview on the Union Navy during the Civil War and its relationship with Lincoln. As it is said in the reviews, we know alot about Lincoln and his Generals, until this book we did not know about Lincoln's relationship with his admirals.
Tom
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tells about Welles, his SECNAV, and Fox, the ASN, as well as the admirals. Everyone involoved has surprisingly direct access to Lincoln.
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