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The Best Station of Them All: The Savannah Squadron, 1861-1865 Maurice Melton, University of Alabama Press, 2012, $69.95 While Civil War historians generally avoid writing much about the Confederate Navy, adhering to the common sentiment that it was inferior, Maurice Melton has found the subject a source of great intrigue. His new book focuses on …
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