Fleet-Captain Drayton in the Civil War (Annotated)

By Captain Percival Drayton

America's Civil War navy gets far less attention than its land armies and battles. Yet the victors of the land wars gave great credit to the operations of the United States Navy.Percival Drayton was one of the U.S.N's most respected officers and commanded ships in the fleet of Admiral David Farragut, sometimes captaining his flagship. Drayton was even called upon to fire on forts commanded by his Confederate brother.In a series of letters during the war to his friends Alexander Hamilton (grandson of the famous Founding Father) and Lydig Hoyt, Captain Drayton provides a fascinating look into the operations and thinking of officers of the fleet. In addition to Farragut, he was in close contact with Admiral David Dixon Porter and General Ulysses S. Grant, among others.This is one of those rare volumes that gives life to the Civil War.Every memoir of the American Civil War provides us with another view of the catastrophe that changed the country forever.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1519056885
• ISBN13: 9781519056887
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.3" x 6.0"