Faces of the Civil War Navies(Ronald Coddington,NH) wooden Lee still had his right

Lee still had his right arm splinted and in a sling

Winner of the Bancroft Prize

Finally fully alert to the mortal threat facing him

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a trademark of Wittenberg’s recent works

Faces of the Civil War Navies(Ronald Coddington,NH) wooden Lee still had his rightby Ronald S. Coddington rchival images and biographical sketches of common sailors on both sides of the conflict reveal the human side of the Civil War. During the American Civil War, more than one hundred thousand men fought on ships at sea or on one of Americas great inland rivers. There were no large scale fleet engagements, yet the navies, particularly the Union Navy, did much to define the character of the war and affect its length. The first