This Great Contest Afloat: The Civil War on the Seas, Coastline, Rivers, and Oceans (Chatelain) postcard to his successful acting career

to his successful acting career on stages across the country

inexperienced soldier

With the aid of over 300 photographs

While his assassination sent the country careening off course

This Great Contest Afloat: The Civil War on the Seas, Coastline, Rivers, and Oceans (Chatelain) postcard to his successful acting careerby Neil P. Chatelain Chatelain reveals how Civil War naval feats reshaped strategy, economy, and diplomacy across four theaters. History offers no example where so much was accomplished in so short a time, or where so many events were crowded into the space of four years, in which the Navy was employed subduing a coast over four thousand miles in length, and recapturing a river coast of more than five thousand miles, wrote Rear Admiral David Dixon