The USS Carondelet: A Civil War Ironclad on Western Waters

by Myron J. Smith Jr.

Overview

The USS Carondelet had a revolutionary ship design and was the most active of all the Union's Civil War river ironclads. From Fort Henry through the siege of Vicksburg and from the Red River campaign through the Battle of Nashville, the gunboat was prominent in war legend and literature. This history draws on the letters of Ensign Scott Dyer Jordan and Rear Adm. Henry Walke's memoirs.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780786445240
Publisher:	McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Publication date:	04/22/2010
Series:	History/Military/American Civil War
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	6.90(w) x 9.90(h) x 0.90(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Prolific author Myron J. Smith, Jr., is emeritus library director and professor at Tusculum University, Greeneville, Tennessee.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments      viii
Foreword by W. Douglas Bell     
Preface     

1. Planning the Western Ironclads     
2. The Building of the Carondelet and the City Series Gunboats     
3. Life Aboard the Carondelet     
4. Fort Henry     
5. Fort Donelson     
6. Island No. 10     
7. Fort Pillow and Memphis     
8. The Arkansas     
9. Transition, January–March 1863     
10. Vicksburg     
11. From Vicksburg to Red River     
12. Nashville     
13. War’s End     

Chapter Notes     
Bibliography     
Index     

Editorial Reviews

lively reading...the most thorough study of a Union ironclad that plied the Mississippi, Tennessee, Cumberland, and Red Rivers...highly recommended”—Choice; “If it sailed on the brown water of America’s Western rives during the Civil War and flew the Stars and Stripes of the Union Navy, Myron Smith more than likely knows about it”—America’s Civil War; “anyone who has an interest in the western theater of the Civil War would do well to add this volume to their bookshelf. It is an excellent history of one of the most successful ironclads in the Union Navy”—Nautical Research Journal; “Smith has carved out a niche for himself as the author of books treating the ships of the U.S. Navy on Western waters during the Civil War”—North & South; “worthwhile”—United States Naval Institute; “thoroughly researched...clearly written...a must-buy”—Civil War News; “wow!”—The Lone Star.

From the Publisher

anyone who has an interest in the western theater of the Civil War would do well to add this volume to their bookshelf. It is an excellent history of one of the most successful ironclads in the Union Navy

Nautical Research Journal

Smith has carved out a niche for himself as the author of books treating the ships of the U.S. Navy on Western waters during the Civil War

North & South

lively reading...the most thorough study of a Union ironclad that plied the Mississippi, Tennessee, Cumberland, and Red Rivers...highly recommended

Choice