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ASSAULT AND LOGISTICS: Union Army coastal and river operations, 1861-1866. by Charles Dana Gibson with E. Kay Gibson.
Role of naval steamboats, including merchant vessels in Civil War. Explores how more than 3,500 merchant vessels were employed by the Union Army as primary transportation and in cooperation with the nation's rail systems. Major campaigns could not have been undertaken without the steamboat, including the Peninsular Campaign in 1862, the taking of Vicksburg in 1863 and the Petersburg Campaign of 1864-165 as well as others. Volume 2 of the Army's Navy Series. 35 illustrations, 16 maps, ship lists. See sample pages, illustrations.
ISBN: 0-9608996-3-4. 1995. Order #: MISC6603cloth w/dust cover$45.00.
CAMPAIGN FOR PETERSBURG: Petersburg National Battlefield. by Richard Wayne Lykes.
National Park Service Handbook # 134.
Battle late in Civil War
that lasted 10 months, trench warfare and tunneling and the explosion that created a crater, fortifications and equipment, dwindling of supplies for the Confederate troops an as a result their many defections, strategies of the opposing Union and Confederate forces, and final outcome that also caused the Southern capital at Richmond to fall and end the war. Maps and historical photographs., 80 pages.
ISBN: 024-005-00979-5. 1985. Order #: USGB2256 paper$5.95.
CIVIL WAR PARKS: the story behind the scenery. Davis.
Overview of war through capsule descriptions of 26 battle parks. 71 color photos, 64 large-format pages.
ISBN: 0-916122-95-6. 1984. Order #: KCPU0713 paper$8.95.
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