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• catalog abstract "To win glory and power, to be renowned throughout posterity--such was the ambition that fueled John A. Dahlgren's controversial rise to eminence during the Civil War era. While he ranks with the foremost contributors to the American naval tradition and is known as the "father of American naval ordnance," personal conflicts and the lack of major victories at sea nearly obscured his historic legacy. This rich, balanced portrait examines in exhaustive detail Dahlgren's quixotic, frustrating quest. Chief of the Bureau of Ordnance in 1862, Dahlgren was recognized as the top ordnance expert in America and was known around the world. He achieved this reputation largely for inventing the Dahlgren gun, the most powerful and reliable naval cannon of its day and the standard armament on Unon warships. But because ordnance work did not yield the glory he so desperately desired, he abandoned the post of bureau chief for a fighting berth. With the help of friend Abraham Lincoln, he tool command of the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron--only to preside over the Navy's greatest disappointment during the war, the failure to capture Charleston. Drawing on Dahlgren's meticulously kept diaries and records and recently uncovered family appears, author Robert Schneller describes with a biographer's sensitivity and a historian's perspective the admiral's many technical triumphs as well as the plots, duels, intrigues, and betrayals hat plagued Dahlgren's life. THis assiduously researched work fills a vast hole in the literature of American naval history and provides a rare look inside the tormented psyche of a man whose greatness was eclipsed, in part, by his own actions.".
• catalog contributor b8076280.
• catalog coverage "Charleston (S.C.) History Siege, 1863.".
• catalog created "c1996.".
• catalog date "1996".
• catalog date "c1996.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c1996.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 421-436) and index.".
• catalog description "The quest begins : 1809-1826 -- The reefer, the sailing navy, and the steam navy : 1826-May 1834 -- The young officer : May 1834-1846 -- American Naval Ordnance before 1850 -- Inventing the Dahlgren gun : 1847-1850 -- Early development : 1850-1851 -- Overcoming entrenched resistance : 1851-1853 -- Arming the fleet : 1853-1854 -- The crises of 1855 : October 1854-October 1855 -- Development during production : October 1855-August 1856 -- Dahlgren's star rising : 1856-1859 -- The rifle question : 1859-1860 -- Dahlgren and Lincoln : 1860-1861 -- Monitor versus Virginia : February 1861-March 1862 -- THe last straw : March-July 1862 -- The bureau of ordnance : July 1862-June 1863 -- Morris Island and Fort Sumter : July-December 1863 -- Stalemate : January-November 1864 -- The Fall of Charleston and the end of the war : November 1864-July 1865 -- Washington and South America : July 1865-July 1868 -- Dahlgren's star fades : July 1868-July 1868.".
• catalog description "To win glory and power, to be renowned throughout posterity--such was the ambition that fueled John A. Dahlgren's controversial rise to eminence during the Civil War era. While he ranks with the foremost contributors to the American naval tradition and is known as the "father of American naval ordnance," personal conflicts and the lack of major victories at sea nearly obscured his historic legacy. This rich, balanced portrait examines in exhaustive detail Dahlgren's quixotic, frustrating quest. Chief of the Bureau of Ordnance in 1862, Dahlgren was recognized as the top ordnance expert in America and was known around the world. He achieved this reputation largely for inventing the Dahlgren gun, the most powerful and reliable naval cannon of its day and the standard armament on Unon warships. But because ordnance work did not yield the glory he so desperately desired, he abandoned the post of bureau chief for a fighting berth. With the help of friend Abraham Lincoln, he tool command of the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron--only to preside over the Navy's greatest disappointment during the war, the failure to capture Charleston. Drawing on Dahlgren's meticulously kept diaries and records and recently uncovered family appears, author Robert Schneller describes with a biographer's sensitivity and a historian's perspective the admiral's many technical triumphs as well as the plots, duels, intrigues, and betrayals hat plagued Dahlgren's life. THis assiduously researched work fills a vast hole in the literature of American naval history and provides a rare look inside the tormented psyche of a man whose greatness was eclipsed, in part, by his own actions.".
• catalog extent "xvii, 452 :".
• catalog hasFormat "Quest for glory.".
• catalog identifier "1557507627 (alk. paper)".
• catalog isFormatOf "Quest for glory.".
• catalog issued "1996".
• catalog issued "c1996.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Annapolis, Md. : Naval Institute Press,".
• catalog relation "Quest for glory.".
• catalog spatial "Charleston (S.C.) History Siege, 1863.".
• catalog spatial "United States".
• catalog subject "359/.0092 20".
• catalog subject "Admirals United States Biography.".
• catalog subject "Dahlgren, John Adolphus Bernard, 1809-1870.".
• catalog subject "E467.1.D13 S36 1995".
• catalog subject "United States. Navy Biography.".
• catalog tableOfContents "The quest begins : 1809-1826 -- The reefer, the sailing navy, and the steam navy : 1826-May 1834 -- The young officer : May 1834-1846 -- American Naval Ordnance before 1850 -- Inventing the Dahlgren gun : 1847-1850 -- Early development : 1850-1851 -- Overcoming entrenched resistance : 1851-1853 -- Arming the fleet : 1853-1854 -- The crises of 1855 : October 1854-October 1855 -- Development during production : October 1855-August 1856 -- Dahlgren's star rising : 1856-1859 -- The rifle question : 1859-1860 -- Dahlgren and Lincoln : 1860-1861 -- Monitor versus Virginia : February 1861-March 1862 -- THe last straw : March-July 1862 -- The bureau of ordnance : July 1862-June 1863 -- Morris Island and Fort Sumter : July-December 1863 -- Stalemate : January-November 1864 -- The Fall of Charleston and the end of the war : November 1864-July 1865 -- Washington and South America : July 1865-July 1868 -- Dahlgren's star fades : July 1868-July 1868.".
• catalog title "A quest for glory : a biography of Rear Admiral John A. Dahlgren / Robert John Schneller, Jr.".
• catalog type "Biography. fast".
• catalog type "History. fast".
• catalog type "text".