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Ironclad Captain: Seth Ledyard Phelps & the U.S. Navy, 1841-1864 | 
 enlarge | Author: Jay Slagle
Publisher: Kent State University Press
Category: Book
List Price: $35.00
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Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 156500
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 449
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.9
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 6.2 x 1.4
ISBN: 0873385500
Dewey Decimal Number: 973.75
EAN: 9780873385503
ASIN: 0873385500
Publication Date: December 1996
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Product Description
From his service in West Africa, Mexico, and the Caribbean to river combat in the Civil War, this colorful biography covers Phelp's entire naval career.
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 Good research, but a family bias March 16, 1999
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Jay Slagle has done an excellent job of detailing S. Ledyard Phelps' career in the Navy and on the Mississippi. Unfortunately, the work appears to be biased in favor of the author's family connection with the subject. Notably, Phelps's relations with the rest of the officers of the Western Gunboat Flotilla are obviously skewed in favor of Phelps... Henry Walke of the Carondelet is portrayed in a decidedly poor light, while the highly controversial William D. "Dirty Bill" Porter is seen to be almost heroic. A potentially fine biography is partially sabotaged by the author's obvious sympathy for his ancestor.
 A fascinating look at national and naval events in the 1800s November 3, 1998
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Jay Slagle has produced a book that offers so much. It gives the reader a real feel of what life was like for a young officer in the pre-Civil War Navy and how the development of the sectional conflict was perceived. This book is also one of the best accounts of the Western Flotilla/Mississippi Squadron that I have read. I couldn't put it down for two weeks. I highly recommend it for anyone interested in the naval events of the Civil War or life in 19th-century America..
well written, accurate, interesting, history at its best March 28, 1998
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I believe that Mr. Slagle is to be commended for the very detailed accurate research that went into this fine histoical account of naval history on inland waters during the War Between The States. After reading this book you will have a better understanding of the use of naval forces to short- en this conflict.
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