QUEST FOR GLORY

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QUEST FOR GLORY
A Biography of Rear Admiral John A. Dahlgren
by Robert J. Schneller
  • ISBN/SKU: 9781557507624
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Era: American Civil War
  • Number of Pages: 476
  • Subject: U.S. Navy
  • Date Available: November 1995
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To win glory and power, to be renowned throughout posterity--such was the ambition that fueled Dahlgren's controversial rise to eminence during the Civil War era. This rich, balanced portrait examines in detail the admiral's quixotic, frustrating quest.

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