Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, (1996). Hardcover. Author William Marvel "interweaves the stories of the two ships (The Alabama and the Kearsarge) from their construction in Liverpool and New Hampshire, to the climactic encounter off Cherbourg and he also illuminates the day-to-day experiences of deepwater sailors, one of the most ignored groups of the Civil War" (jacket). He used original source material including muster rolls, logbooks, letters, census and pension records, diaries of officers and crewmen, and French sources. In this book he challenges the accuracy of key memoirs on which previous histories of the Alabama have been based. Perhaps most interesting is his description of the everyday life of the sailors.

Size: 8vo. Blue cloth covered boards with gilt title to spine. Pristine interior with 20 pages of illustrations. Blue illustrated dust jacket with purple title to spine. Index, 337 pages. CIV/071511. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket.

Item #25093
ISBN: 0807822949

Price: $25.00