Lamson of the Gettysburg the Civil War Letters of Lieutenant Roswell H. Lamson, U.S. Navy
- List Price: $54.00
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr on Demand
- Publish date: 10/01/1997
Description:
Roswell Lamson was one of the boldest and most skillful young officers in the Union navy. Second in the class of 1862 at Annapolis (he took his final exam while at sea during the war), he commanded more ships and flotillas than any other officer of his age or rank in the service, climaxed by his captaincy of the navy's fastest ship in 1864, USS Gettysburg. Now, in Lamson of the Gettysburg, we have the wartime letters of this striking naval figure. Throughout the war, Lamson always seemed to be where the action was on the South Atlantic coast, and these letters describe with striking immediacy the part he played in these events. While serving on the USS Wabash, for instance, he directed the big deck guns that did the most damage to enemy forts at Hatteras Inlet and Port Royal, two major naval victories. He was the officer who took command of the CSS Planter in May 1862, when slaves led by Robert Smalls ran her past Confederate fortifications in Charleston harbor and delivered her to the Union fleet. He commanded a gunboat fleet on the Nansemond River that helped stop James Longstreet's advance on Norfolk. In a daring attempt to blow up Fort Fisher, the huge earthwork fortress that guarded the entrance into the Cape Fear River, he towed the USS Louisiana (packed with more than two hundred tons of gunpowder) directly under the guns of the fort, sneaking into the shallows behind a rebel blockade runner. And a few weeks later, he led a contingent of seventy men from the Gettysburg as part of the January 15, 1865, assault on the seaface parapets of Fort Fisher, where he himself was wounded and his close friend, Samuel W. Preston, died. The letters also capture the spirited personality of Lamson himself, resolved to "stand by the Union as long as there is a plank afloat".
Expand description
Product notice
Returnable at the third party seller's discretion and may come without consumable supplements like access codes, CD's, or workbooks.
Seller | Condition | Comments | Price |
|
JPH Books
Like New
|
$2.25
|
sherisbooks
|
Very Good |
$2.99
|
|
Gulf Coast Books
Acceptable |
$3.21
|
|
Cathy's Half Price Books
Very Good |
$3.25
|
|
Sheri's Book Treasures
Very Good
|
$3.36
|
|
HPB-Emerald
Very Good
|
$3.37
|
|
Goodwill Books
Good
|
$3.66
|
|
Wonder Book - Member ABAA/ILAB
Very Good |
$5.01
|
|
Wonder Book - Member ABAA/ILAB
Good |
$5.01
|
|
Books End Bookshop
Very Good |
$5.06
|
|
red rover do over
Very Good
|
$5.57
|
|
Alphaville Books
Very Good |
$5.62
|
|
HPB-Emerald
Very Good
|
$5.62
|
|
HPB-Red
Good
|
$5.62
|
|
HPB Inc.
Good
|
$5.62
|
|
Midtown Scholar Bookstore
Very Good |
$6.68
|
Ergodebooks
|
Good |
$6.69
|
|
Rose Wind Press
Like New
|
$6.70
|
|
Websters Bookstore Cafe
Very Good
|
$6.73
|
|
Browse Awhile Books
Very Good
|
$6.75
|
|
Dunaway Books
Good
|
$6.75
|
|
nelsonsbooks
New |
$7.31
|
|
BPC Books
Very Good |
$7.60
|
|
First Landing Books & Art, Inc
Very Good
|
$7.78
|
Ergodebooks
|
New |
$21.10
|
Please Wait