War on the Waters: The Civil War Navy
Where: New-York Historical Society
170 Central Park West
212-873-3400 Price: $30
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With James M. McPherson, Craig L. Symonds, Harold Holzer (moderator).
The naval side of the Civil War was far more than a picturesque battle over vast oceans. Rather, it was a gritty fight involving deadly new technologies, focused primarily on the nation’s rivers — particularly the “Father of Waters,” as Lincoln called the crucial Mississippi. Now two of the nation’s leading military historians — each with a new book on the Civil War navies — re-examine the “inland” war for the divided nation’s waters.