![]() ![]() Nevertheless, McPherson demonstrates that this is not the story of guaranteed naval victory. 226) Subscribers to Naval History Book Reviews will not disagree. McPherson declares on page 1 that “the Union deserves more credit for Northern Victory than it has traditionally received.” He concludes by saying: “the war could not have been won without the contributions of the navy.” (p. McPherson, well known for such works as Battle Cry of Freedom, For Cause and Comrades, and Tried by War, now offers War on the Waters, a volume that compresses a complex topic into 226 pages of text and skillfully merges the “big picture” with specific themes, colorful quotations, and powerful vignettes. McPherson, University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill NC, (2012).ĭo we need yet another book about the naval side of the Civil War? When the book has been written by the nation’s preeminent scholar of the Civil War, the answer is certainly yes. ![]()
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