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Hardback. Zustand: Good. We gain unique insight into the fine line between the flag's use as a historical emblem and as an invocation of the Confederate nation and all it stood for.

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Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. The James River led to Richmond and the improvised Confederate flotilla played a role in many Civil War battles in the region. Under the command of the daring John Randolph Tucker, the sailors fought to the bitter end as infantrymen in the Appomattox campaign.

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Paperback. Zustand: Like New. LIKE NEW, Appears unread. xi, 401 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. . . . . . The Confederate Battle Flag is the first comprehensive history of this contested symbol. Transcending conventional partisanship, John Coski reveals the flag's origins as one of many banners unfurled on the battlefields of the Civil War. He shows how it emerged as the preeminent representation of the Confederacy and was transformed into a cultural icon from Reconstruction on, becoming an aggressively racist symbol only after World War II and during the Civil Rights movement. We gain unique insight into the fine line between the flag's use as a historical emblem and as an invocation of the Confederate nation and all it stood for. -- PUBLISHER'S CATALOG.…

Paperback. 8vo. Stiff glossy pictorial wrappers. xiv, 344pp. Illustrations, maps. Fine. First softbound edition of this 1996 study, tight and pristine.

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Zustand: New. Intense public debates have erupted over Confederate flags flying atop state capitals, being incorporated into state flags, waving from dormitory windows, or adorning the T-shirts and jeans of public school children. Polarizing Americans, these 'flag wars' reveal the profound schisms that have plagued the country since the Civil War. Num Pages: 448 pages, 40 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBTG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 142 x 31. Weight in Grams: 610. . 2006. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.…

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A complex Civil War figure navigates a global career across six navies, shaping a harsh, controversial life at sea and beyond.Hunter Davidson (1826-1913) enjoyed one of the most remarkable careers at sea of any officer, and An Officer of Six Navies: The Life of Confederate Commander Hunter Davidson tells his swashbuckling wild story for the first time. Davidson earned his fifteen minutes of fame in May 1864 when he and his Confederate Submarine Battery Service became the first force to destroy an enemy warship using an electrically detonated torpedo. Davidson also makes the history books as the commander of two gun sections on CSS Virginia in her epic battle against USS Monitor. Before he fought against the U.S. Navy, he served in that navy for nearly two decades, spending time in the Caribbean, the Pacific, the coast of Lower California during the Mexican War, the new Naval School, the Coast Survey, the Africa Squadron, and aboard the exploring vessel HMS Resolute. Considered an intelligent and promising, albeit contentious, young officer, Davidson was an instructor at the U.S. Naval Academy in 1861 when he resigned to join the Virginia State Navy.After the collapse of the Confederacy in 1865, Davidson struggled to find a new career and support his growing family. The Chilean Navy recruited him and his torpedo expertise to help repel a threatened Spanish invasion. He went on to spend four years as the first commander of the Maryland State Oyster Police before finding a new home in Argentina as commander of that nation's Torpedo and Hydrographic departments. An 'unreconstructed' Confederate, Davidson did not return to his family in Maryland but retired to Paraguay, where he started a second family and endeavored to defend from afar his place in Civil War history.Davidson's career typified those of other young U.S. Navy officers of his era who cast their lots with the losing side in the Civil War. In other ways, especially in his 40-year self-exile from the reunited nation, Davidson was virtually unique. His Confederate career alone made him an important and fascinating figure, but his service in or with six different navies gives his life an epic quality.In 1900, the 73-year-old Davidson described himself as 'all broken up with a hard messy uneasy life.' It was a life made harder and messier by his own decisions and his own combative personality. An Officer of Six Navies: The Life of Confederate Commander Hunter Davidson by John M. Coski with Charles Talmadge Jacobs forthrightly explores all facets of Davidson's 'hard messy uneasy' life and introduces readers to one of Civil War history's forgotten but unforgettable characters.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In recent years, the Confederate flag has become as much a news item as a Civil War relic. Intense public debates have erupted over Confederate flags flying atop state capitols, being incorporated into state flags, waving from dormitory windows, or adorning the T-shirts and jeans of public school children. To some, this piece of cloth is a symbol of white supremacy and enduring racial injustice; to others, it represents a rich Southern heritage and an essential link to a glorious past. Polarizing Americans, these 'flag wars' reveal the profound--and still unhealed--schisms that have plagued the country since the Civil War.The Confederate Battle Flag is the first comprehensive history of this contested symbol. Transcending conventional partisanship, John Coski reveals the flag's origins as one of many banners unfurled on the battlefields of the Civil War. He shows how it emerged as the preeminent representation of the Confederacy and was transformed into a cultural icon from Reconstruction on, becoming an aggressively racist symbol only after World War II and during the Civil Rights movement. We gain unique insight into the fine line between the flag's use as a historical emblem and as an invocation of the Confederate nation and all it stood for. Pursuing the flag's conflicting meanings, Coski suggests how this provocative artifact, which has been viewed with pride, fear, anger, nostalgia, and disgust, might ultimately provide Americans with the common ground of a shared and complex history.…

Hardcover. Small 4to. Grey cloth, pictorial dust jacket. xiv, 344pp. Illustrations, maps. Fine/fine. A superb, tight, perfect first edition.

Zustand: New. Pursuing the flag s conflicting meanings, Coski suggests how this provocative artifact, which has been viewed with pride, fear, anger, nostalgia, and disgust, might ultimately provide Americans with the common ground of a shared and complex history.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 401 pages. 9.00x6.00x1.50 inches. In Stock.

Trade paperback. Zustand: Good. Presumed First Edition, First printing. The format is approximately 11 inches by 8.5 inches. 63, [1] pages. Illustrated covers. The Confederate Navy is a catalogue of an exhibition at The Museum of the Confederacy, Richmond, Virginia, on display from March 8, 2005 through December 31, 2006. John M Coski was the Historian and Director of Library & Research at the Museum of the Confederacy. John M. Coski retired in 2022 after 33 years with The Museum of the Confederacy and the American Civil War Museum. He is author of The Confederate Battle Flag: America's Most Embattled Emblem (Harvard University Press, 2005), Capital Navy: The Men, Ships, and Operations of the James River Squadron (Savas, 1996), and other books and articles. He earned his B.A. from Mary Washington College in Fredericksburg and his M.A. and Ph.D. in American history from the College of William and Mary. The Confederate States Navy (CSN) was the naval branch of the Confederate States Armed Forces, established by an act of the Confederate States Congress on February 21, 1861. It was responsible for Confederate naval operations during the American Civil War against the United States's Union Navy. The three major tasks of the Confederate States Navy during its existence were the protection of Confederate harbors and coastlines from outside invasion, making the war costly for the United States by attacking its merchant ships worldwide, and running the U.S. blockade by drawing off Union ships in pursuit of Confederate commerce raiders and warships. The coastal blockade by the United States Navy reduced trade by the South to 5 percent of its pre-war levels. The control of inland rivers and coastal navigation by the US Navy forced the south to overload its limited railroads to the point of failure. The surrender of the CSS Shenandoah in Liverpool, England, marked the end of the Civil War and the Confederate Navy's existence. The Confederate Navy could never achieve numerical equality with the Union Navy. It instead sought to take advantage of technological innovation, such as ironclads, submarines, torpedo boats, and naval mines. In February 1861, the Confederate States Navy had 30 vessels, only 14 of which were seaworthy. The opposing Union Navy had 90 vessels. The C. S. Navy eventually grew to 101 ships to meet the rise in naval conflicts and threats to the coast and rivers of the Confederacy. On April 20, 1861, the U.S. was forced to quickly abandon the important Gosport Navy Yard at Portsmouth, Virginia. In their haste, they failed to effectively burn the facility with its large depots of arms, other supplies, and several small vessels. As a result, the Confederacy captured a large supply of much-needed war materials, including heavy cannon, gunpowder, shot, and shell. Of most importance to the Confederacy was the shipyard's dry docks, barely damaged by the departing Union forces. The Confederacy's only substantial navy yard at that time was in Pensacola, Florida, so the Gosport Yard was sorely needed to build new warships. The most significant warship left at the Yard was the screw frigate USS Merrimack. Confederate Navy Secretary Stephen Mallory had the idea to raise Merrimack and rebuild it. The vessel was a new kind of warship, an all-steam powered "iron-clad". In the centuries-old tradition of reusing captured ships, the new warship was christened CSS Virginia. She later fought the Union's new ironclad USS Monitor. On the second day of the Battle of Hampton Roads, the two ships met and each scored numerous hits on the other. On the first day of that battle Virginia, and the James River Squadron, aggressively attacked and nearly broke the Union Navy's sea blockade of wooden warships, proving the effectiveness of the ironclad concept. The two ironclads had steamed forward, tried to outflank or ram the other, circled, backed away, and came forward firing again and again, but neither was able to sink or demand surrender of its opponent. After four hours, both ships were taking on water through split se. Tucker H. Hill (Photographer) and Katherine Wetzel (illustrator).…