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Ironclad captain : Seth Ledyard Phelps & the U.S. Navy, 1841-1864

Author: Jay Slagle
Publisher: Kent, Ohio : Kent State University Press, ©1996.
Edition/Format:   Book : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
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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
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Genre/Form: Biography
Named Person: Seth Ledyard Phelps
Material Type: Biography
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Jay Slagle
ISBN: 0873385500 9780873385503
OCLC Number: 34411837
Description: xvi, 449 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Contents: Destroying a fleet --
"Reefers" --
Bonita --
Between wars --
Mongrel service --
Fort Henry and the Tennessee River raid --
Fort Donelson --
Island No. 10 --
Fort Pillow and the Battle of Plum Point Bend --
Memphis and the Mound City disaster --
Vicksburg --
Fair play and politics --
Flotilla overhaul --
Station duty and guerrilla war --
Red river --
Frustration and resignation --
Stemships, canals, and diplomacy --
Epilogue --
Appendix one: Prize money awards --
Appendix two: Phelps's gunboat plans.
Responsibility: Jay Slagle ; with a foreword by Edwin C. Bearss.
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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.

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