I Am Fighting for the Union The Civil War Letters of Naval Officer Henry Willis Wells.
"On 18 May 1862, Henry Willis Wells wrote a letter to his mother telling her in clear terms, "I am fighting for the Union." Since August 1861, when he joined the US Navy as a master's mate, at age twenty, he never wavered in his loyalty. He wrote to his family frequently that he...
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Tuscaloosa :
University of Alabama Press,
2023.
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| Series: | Maritime Currents: History and Archaeology Ser.
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Abbreviations
- Chronology
- 1. "I Like My Situation First Rate": Patrolling Virginia Waters
- 2. "I Hope They Are Going to Give Us a Chance to Do Something at Last": Blockade Duty
- 3. "If They Would Only Put Me on Board a Man of War": Off Wilmington
- 4. "The Bold and Daring Act": Prisoner of War
- 5. "Coolness and Gallantry under Trying Circumstances": Service in the North Carolina Sounds
- 6. "The Papers Cry Out against the Wilmington Blockade": Back on the Wilmington Blockade
- 7. "It Makes Our Life Here Seem Doubly Monotonous": Duty in Florida
- 8. "I Like My New Position Quite Well": In Command
- 9. "It Is with Feelings of Sadness": The Death of Henry Wells
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Maps
- Figures