Calore, Paul

Offers an analysis of every naval campaign of the Civil War, from the efforts at Fort Sumter during the secession of South Carolina in 1860, through the battles in the Gulf of Mexico, on the Mississippi River, and along the eastern seaboard, to the final attack at Fort Fisher on the coast of North Carolina in January 1865.

Provides a chronological exploration of the political, cultural, and economic issues that influenced relations between the North and the South and caused the Civil War.