John's review
Confederate Shipbuilding (Studies in Maritime History)
by William N. Still Jr.
John's review
Confederate Shipbuilding (Studies in Maritime History) by William N. Still Jr.
John's review
rating:
Still suggests that it was not the absence of ship-building facilities that doomed the Confederate Navy or a lack of foundries, iron works or armament works. It was a lack of ability to get the iron and coal out of the ground fast enough and a lack of rolling stock to move resources and finished materials around. The success of the Union blockade forced the Confederates to disperse their facities and place them as far inland as possible...which led to further logistics and transportation problems.
