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Confederate Saboteurs: Building the Hunley and Other Secret Weapons of the Civil War (Nautical Archaeology Series) - Hardcover

Buch 11 von 18: Ed Rachal Foundation Nautical Archaeology

Ragan, Mark K.

 
9781623492786: Confederate Saboteurs: Building the Hunley and Other Secret Weapons of the Civil War (Nautical Archaeology Series)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1623492785 ISBN 13: 9781623492786
Verlag: TEXAS A & M UNIV PR, 2015

Inhaltsangabe

Facing an insurmountable deficit in resources compared to the Union navy, the Confederacy resorted to unorthodox forms of warfare to combat enemy forces.

Perhaps the most energetic and effective torpedo corps and secret service company organized during the American Civil War, the Singer Secret Service Corps, led by Texan inventor and entrepreneur Edgar Collins Singer, developed and deployed submarines, underwater weaponry, and explosive devices.

The group’s main government-financed activity, which eventually led to other destructive inventions such as the Hunley submarine and behind-enemy-line railroad sabotage, was the manufacture and deployment of an underwater contact mine. During the two years the Singer group operated, several Union gunboats, troop transports, supply trains, and even the famous ironclad monitor Tecumseh fell prey to its inventions.

In Confederate Saboteurs: Building the Hunley and Other Secret Weapons of the Civil War, submarine expert and nautical historian  Mark K. Ragan presents the untold story of the Singer corps. Poring through previously unpublished archival documents, Ragan also examines the complex personalities and relationships behind the Confederacy’s use of torpedoes and submarines.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

MARK K. RAGAN  served as project historian during the recovery and excavation of the history-making Civil War submarine, the Hunley, as well as consultant for the 1999 Turner Network Television movie about the vessel. He lives in Edgewater, Maryland.

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Verlag
TEXAS A & M UNIV PR
Erscheinungsdatum
2015
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1623492785
ISBN 13 
9781623492786
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Anzahl der Seiten
296
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