Glory in the Name : A Novel of the Confederate Navy (9780060959050)

Then call us Rebels if you will we glory in the name, for bending under unjust laws and swearing faith to an unjust cause, we count as greater shame. -- Richmond Daily Dispatch, May 12, 1862April 12, 1861. With one jerk of a lanyard, one shell arching into the sky, years of tension explode into civil war. And for those men who do not know in which direction their loyalty calls them, it is a time for decisions. Such a one is Lieutenant Samuel Bowater, an officer of the U.S. Navy and a native of Charleston, South Carolina.Hard-pressed to abandon the oath he swore to the United States, but unable to fight against his home state, Bowater accepts a commission in the nascent Confederate Navy, where captains who once strode the quarterdecks of the world's most powerful ships are now assuming command of paddle wheelers and towboats. Taking charge of the armed tugboat Cape Fear, and then the ironclad Yazoo River, Bowater and his men, against overwhelming odds, engage in the waterborne fight for Southern independence.

Product details

• Format Paperback | 432 pages
• Dimensions 140 x 210 x 32mm | 308g
• Publication date 13 Apr 2004
• Publisher HARPER PERENNIAL
• Publication City/Country New York, NY, Australia
• Language English
• Edition Statement Perennial ed.
• Illustrations note black & white illustrations
• ISBN10 0060959053
• ISBN13 9780060959050
• Bestsellers rank 717,104

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