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John M. Brooke

Ironclads and Big Guns of the Confederacy

The Journal and Letters of John M.Brooke

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Loaded with previously unavailable information about the Confederate Navy's effort to supply its fledgling forces, the wartime diaries and letters of John M. Brooke (1826-1906) tell the neglected story of the Confederate naval ordnance office, its innovations, and its strategic vision. As Confederate commander of ordnance and hydrography in Richmond, Virginia, during the Civil War, Brooke numbered among the military officers who resigned their U.S. commissions and went South to join the Confederate forces at the onset of conflict. A twenty-year veteran of the United States Navy who had been appointed a midshipman at the age of fourteen, Brook… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Brooke, George M. (Hrsg.)
  • ISBN: 978-1-57003-418-3
  • EAN: 9781570034183
  • Produktnummer: 9269976
  • Verlag: University of South Carolina Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2001
  • Seitenangabe: 320 S.
  • Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm 567 g
  • Abbildungen: 3 halftones, 10 line art
  • Gewicht: 567
  • Sonstiges: Undergraduate

Über den Autor


GEORGE M. BROOKE, JR., is professor emeritus of history at the Virginia Military Institute and the grandson of John M. Brooke. A veteran of World War II, Brooke is the author of John M. Brooke, Naval Scientist and Educator and John M. Brooke's Pacific and Japanese Adventure, 1858-1860. He lives in Lexington, Virginia.

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