CAS PO 141 Lecture : US Navy 1861 and Political Affairs.docx
21 Apr 2014
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1861-1865: the civil war: naval superiority gave the union the advantage of mobility, as. Mcclellan"s move to the virginia peninsula was the most evident example of this, but the navy also helped transport. Mgen ambrose burnside"s army to the coast of north carolina and mgen benjamin. And the navy was crucial in combined operations on the inland rivers, as in the seizure of forts henry and donelson on the. Tennesse river and the pivotal vicksburg campaign (78) Significantly, in no other operation of the civil war was the importance of effective. From 1865 to 1890 the u. s. navy suffered through a period of retrenchmentit stopped building new warships altogether and thereby failed to keep pace with the dramatic advances in naval technology being adopted by the navies of europe. But in part, too, the nation"s lack of overseas coaling stations compelled the u. s. navy to rely on sail power long after european navies had abandoned it.
