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Title: I need to help my daughter with a description of some civil war battle
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Published: Dec 6, 2016
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Post Date: 2016-12-06 15:07:02 by no gnu taxes
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She has to produce something about a civil war battle. Isn't everybody going to do Gettysburg? A few may do Shiloh or Antietam, or something like that.

I'm thinking of using the last battle that was in Texas a month after Lee surrendered. I'll have to look up the details, but the Union got its ass kicked in this one.

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#11. To: no gnu taxes (#0)

Two battles where new technology changed naval combat forever

USS Monitor v. Merrimack (CSS Virginia), after the Virginia tore apart a line of regular US Navy ships - the Battle of Hampton Roads - is an exciting battle that marked the changing of the world.

Also, the Hunley's destruction of the USS Housatonic was the first time in history that a submarine sank an enemy vessel - another world-changing battle.

CSS David's attack on USS New Ironsides, 1863, was the first successful use of a torpedo boat in war.

Battle of Cherbourg - USS Kearsarge sinks CSS Alabama, an infamous commerce raider, after a running fight.

The American Civil War saw the development of a series of naval inventions that changed the way the whole world fought at sea. Ships of the Line, the "wooden ships and iron men" of the British age of sail were no match for the Union or Confederate ironclads.

Consider the problem the French or British would have had had they actually entered the war against the South and brought their proud wooden sailing ships across the Atlantic and tried to force their way into a Confederate port defended by several ironclad Union monitors. The Merrimack (CSS Virginia) sank two Union ships and seriously damaged and drove off a third - and they could do nothing to the ironclad. With time, the CSS Virginia, all by herself, could have send Nelson's whole fleet to the bottom at Trafalgar - the old style ships could not penetrate the armor, and could not outrun the steamship.

Torpedoes and submarines - the South was outnumbered and outgunned, but Southern naval ingenuity cost the Union dearly, and taught the world many things.

So maybe consider a naval battle instead of a land battle.

If you live in a state on the Mississippi, then perhaps a battle such as Island No. 10 - a great river battle - or the Battle of Vicksburg (which had both a land and a naval component) would be interesting.

The naval component of the war: the Anaconda Plan - is what really brought the South to its knees. Had the Union not effectively blockaded the South, the South had the money and cotton to be able to buy as much ammunition and weapons as they needed to arm the whole region, and probably would have not been beatable within any politically acceptable time range.

It was the Navy, really, that cut off the Confederacy from Britain and France, and thereby starved it. The Confederate inventions to try to break the blockade showed a great deal of "'Yankee' Ingenuity" and changed naval warfare forever.

So tell her to stand out by doing some naval battle instead.

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