GUNS ON THE WESTERN WATERS: THE STORY OF RIVER GUNBOATS IN THE CIVIL WAR
Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1993. Paperback. 273 pp; full, accurate treatment of the important gunboat operations in the western theater of the Civil War; detailed descriptions of the major types of Union and confederate gunboats, with a brief but authoritative essay on the strategy and tactics of.....