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Naval Operations in the Gulf
September 13, 1883 issue

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The article discusses the book "The Gulf and Inland Waters," by A.T. Mahan. The book deals principally with the service of the navy at Mobile and on the Mississippi and its tributaries. Nowhere else in the war did the army and navy act together in more cordial and efficient concert. For river duty a fleet was hastily created of ironclads, massive and torpid, like the turtles from which they took their nickname; of riverboats altered to rams; of mortar rafts and tinclads. Nondescript crews were put in each of these without any naval officer but the commander.

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GULF & Inland Waters, The (Book); BOOKS; MAHAN, A. T.; NAVAL art & science; WAR; RIVER boats; MISSISSIPPI; UNITED States
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