Individual Wars, United States History - 19th Century - Civil War, United States History - 19th Century - General & Miscellaneous, U.S. Armed Forces - Biography, Navy & Naval History, Mexican History, United States History - 19th Century - Westward Migrat
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Overview
Seth Ledyard Phelps was of the Old Navy and the New. As a midshipman and junior officer he served under sail off West Africa, in the War with Mexico, and in the Mediterranean and Caribbean. As a senior officer in the river squadrons of the Civil War he saw combat at its closest. Phelps, a native of Chardon, Ohio, was a prolific and observant correspondent. His private letters, to his wife, his father, and to political patrons and other naval officers, are among the most compelling and descriptive extant. The heart of Ironclad Captain are these letters, which Jay Slagle has set in context through the judicious use of published documents, memoirs, and scholarly histories of the navy. The result is a small history of the navy and its officer corps for the middle third of the nineteenth century.Editorials
Booknews
Slagle, great-great grandson of Seth Ledyard Phelps, provides a history of the navy during the middle of the 19th century based primarily on the captain's abundant correspondence and placed in context through the use of published documents, memoirs, and scholarly histories of the navy. B&w illustrations. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.Book Details
Published
November 30, 1996
Publisher
Kent, Ohio : Kent State University Press, c1996.
Pages
449
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780873385503