A Quest for Glory: A Biography of Rear Admiral John A. Dahlgren - Hardcover

Jr., Robert J. Schneller

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1557507627 ISBN 13: 9781557507624

Verlag: Naval Institute Press, 1995

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Book by Schneller Robert J Jr

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To win glory and power, to be renowned throughout posterity - such was the ambition that fuelled John A. Dahlgren's controversial rise to eminence during the Civil War era. While he ranks with the foremost contributors to the American naval tradition and is known as the `father of American naval ordnance', personal conflicts and the lack of major victories at sea nearly obscured his historic legacy. This rich, balanced portrait examines in exhaustive detail Dahlgren's quixotic, frustrating quest. Chief of the Bureau of Ordnance in 1862, Dahlgren was recognized as the top ordnance expert in America and was known around the world. He achieved this reputation largely for inventing the Dahlgren gun, the most powerful and reliable naval cannon of its day and the standard armament on Union warships. But because ordnance work did not yield the glory he so desperately desired, he abandoned the post of bureau chief for a fighting berth. With the help of friend Abraham Lincoln, he took command of the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron - only to preside over the Navy's greatest disappointment during the war, the failure to capture Charleston. Drawing on Dahlgren's meticulously kept diaries and records and recently uncovered family papers, author Robert Schneller describes with a biographer's sensitivity and a historian's perspective the admiral's many technical triumphs as well as the plots, duels, intrigues, and betrayals that plagued Dahlgren's life.

Biografía del autor:

Robert J. Schneller Jr. is an official historian in the Contemporary History Branch of the U.S. Navy's Naval Historical Center and holds a PhD. in military history from Duke University. He is an award-winning biographer and historian, and has published several books on American naval history, including Shield and Sword: The United States Navy and the Persian Gulf War.

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• Verlag: Naval Institute Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1995
• ISBN 10: 1557507627
• ISBN 13: 9781557507624
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 476