Confederate Shipbuilding

This work covers the real grounds for the Confederacy's failure to build a successful navy. The South's major problems with shipbuilding concerned facilities, materials, and labour. Each of these subjects is discussed, and the text concludes by joining these problems to the issues of the Civil War.

Author: William N. Jr. Still
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Published: 08/01/2003
Pages: 110
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.81lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.44d
ISBN: 9780872495111

About the Author

William N. Still Jr. received his Ph.D. from the University of Alabama in 1964 and is professor of history emeritus and former director of the Program in Maritime History and Underwater Archaeology at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina. A member of the Secretary of the Navy's Subcommittee in Naval History, Still serves on the editorial boards for American Neptune and Civil War Times Illustrated. The author of Iron Afloat: The Story of the Confederate Armorclads, published by the University of South Carolina Press in 1985, and the editor of The Confederate Navy: The Ships, Men, and Organization, 1861-65, he is also a coauthor of Why the South Lost the Civil War. Still lives in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii.