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Chesapeake Bay in the Civil War
Language: en
Pages: 336
Authors: Eric Mills
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1996 - Publisher: Cornell Maritime Press/Tidewater Publishers

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"At the start of the great Civil War, the Chesapeake Bay was a crucially important piece of watery real estate, with North and South struggling for its control.
The Oyster Wars of Chesapeake Bay
Language: en
Pages: 166
Authors: John Wennersten
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007 - Publisher: Lulu.com

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In the decades after the Civil War, Chesapeake Bay became the scene of a life and death struggle to harvest the oyster.
Fort Monroe
Language: en
Pages: 134
Authors: John V. Quarstein
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000 - Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

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Fort Monroe: The Key to the South is a powerful pictorial portraying the exciting history of the only fort in the Upper South to remain under Union control thro
The Plundering Time
Language: en
Pages: 392
Authors: Timothy B. Riordan
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004 - Publisher:

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According to most historians, in 1645-46, Richard Ingle and his ship Reformation terrorized the tiny settlements on the Chesapeake Bay, bringing the violence an
Pirates of the Chesapeake Bay
Language: en
Pages: 149
Authors: Jamie L.H. Goodall
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-02-24 - Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

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“An epic history of piracy . . . Goodall explores the role of these legendary rebels and describes the fine line between piracy and privateering.” —WYPR T