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Sailing with Farragut

Sailing with Farragut

Sailing with Farragut

George S. Burkhardt
University of Tennessee Press
241 pages
$53.95

“From the bloody skirmishes around Vicksburg to Farragut’s disaster at Port Hudson and on to his victory at Mobile Bay, Sailing with Farragut gives readers a vivid view of life on the Mississippi during the Civil War and keen insight into the leader, officer, and man that was Admiral David Farragut.”

–from the Publisher