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1891 CIVIL WAR Military Navy Admiral Porter Confederacy

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1891 CIVIL WAR Military Navy Admiral Porter Confederacy Farragut New Orleans

David Dixon Porter was a United States Navy admiral and a member of one of the most distinguished families in the history of the U.S. Navy. Promoted as the second U.S. Navy officer ever to attain the rank of admiral, after his adoptive brother David G. Farragut, Porter helped improve the Navy as the Superintendent of the U.S. Naval Academy after significant service in the American Civil War.

This edition of “Incidents and Anecdotes” by Admiral Porter, gives firsthand accounts of significant battle scenes in the American Civil War. Contents include:

•Plan to save Fort Pickens

•Incidents at Pensacola

•The Attack on New Orleans

•Ascending the Mississippi

•Plan for the capture of Vicksburg

Item number: #4035

Price: $399

PORTER, David Dixon

Incidents and anecdotes of the civil war.

New York, D. Appleton and Co., 1891.

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•Collation: Complete with all pages

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•Language: English

•Binding: hardcover; tight and secure

•Size: ~9in X 6in (22.5cm x 15cm)

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