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linkage between resources, decisions and events. Shingleton addresses in detail Maffitťs wartime endeavors; their contribution to the
Southern cause is a significant lesson in naval history that must not be forgotten. Hindsight makes clear that the obvious benefits brought by Maffitťs actions - although not realized during his lifetime - confirm the need for and value for a strong navy to a country's survival. This is more than an excellent adventure story of life on the high seas during the Civil War; it is a warning about the use and application of a nation's navy. As Maffitt said, 'the grand mistake of the South was neglecting her Navy'".
282:"This compact biography is in many senses a model work because it succinctly recounts the story of it protagonist, provides the basic chronology and facts, sets them in their larger matrix, and always allows the sources to speak for themselves. In particular, the details of the life of the young naval officer are presented in greater detail than elsewhere, with solid use of the Maffitt letters and service record....High Seas Confederate will undoubtedly remain the standard biography of John Newland Maffitt, and a key volume in Confederate navel historiography, for years to come."
259:"This important book chronicles the life and entrepreneurial activities of Pennsylvania-born Richard Peters, who came to Georgia in 1835 as assistant railroad engineer and stayed to help lay the foundations for building the town of Terminus, Georgia , into the modern city of Atlanta. Shingleton is to be commended for rescuing Peters from relative historical obscurity in this well-researched and beautifully written addition to the literature of southern history. Photographs. Bibliographic essay. Index. Public and academic libraries at all levels."
256:"Richard Peters, an influential business leader who played a significant role in antebellum and reconstruction Atlanta...was the first person to use the new name Atlanta in place of the official Marthasville, had a hand in moving the capital of Georgia to Atlanta. The author sees Peters as an example of Henry Grady's "New South" businessman...the young Grady spent time as a guest on Peters' farm and described his visits there in print....extensive background information on Atlanta and the South."
183:, and its second printing (in both hardcover and paperback) was a National Historical Society Book Club edition. Working from Wood's family documents, his military career has been reconstructed. Moving boarding cutters overland by day, Wood emerged from unexpected places at night along the eastern seaboard to capture Union vessels in hand to hand combat. At the end of the war, Wood escaped along the eastern Florida coast to Cuba in one the of the most famous escape stories in American history.
242:"The author has presented an extensively documented biography of a relatively unknown Confederate naval officer whose wartime career reads like that of C. S. Forester's fictional Horatio Hornblower. John Taylor Wood's whaleboat activities...resulted in the capture of eight vessels in inland waters...one of which was literally blasted apart by the guns of the fortifications at which it was moored in a futile attempt to drive off the boarding parties led by Wood ."
253:"Shingleton sees Henry W. Grady as the greatest symbol and publicist of the New South, he believes that Peters was the major practitioner of the movement. Long before Grady was making his powerful addresses in the North concerning the New South, Peters was practicing the major tenets of the movement with his work in Georgia in the areas of transportation, urbanization, industrialization, and diversified farming....an excellent biography of a major figure."
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211:(Studies in Maritime History), also had a second printing with a redesigned dust jacket, and won the Clarendon Award. Shingleton traces Maffitt's climb in rank and reputation among the Confederate officers in the first modern biography of the swashbuckling captain. Maffitt's courage, quick thinking, seamanship, and navigational skills made him effective in extraordinary runs through the Union blockade into southern ports. As commander of the
271:, Russell Ramsey wrote: "Contemporary students of the art of war will be surprised to see riverine tactics, joint operations, logistics, civil-military relations, undercover operations, innovative gadgetry, and battlefield intelligence all systematically treated in Royce G. Shingleton's page-snapping accounts of the 'Gray Ghost' navy. This writer is reminded after reading Shingleton's work of a certain other writer,
245:""A gem of a book...superb historical writing and research...remarkably objective critique ...original sources from Wood's papers and diary...highly readable--one almost wants to say brilliant. Sparklingly written and based upon sound scholarship, John Taylor Wood will long stand to remind all that history can be interestingly written and when it is, it is as fine a piece of literature as anyone could desire".
239:"Both a colonel in the Confederate army and a captain in the Confederate navy, Wood has previously received only part of the historical attention he deserves. Now the dauntless and resourceful 'sea ghost of the Confederacy' lives anew as a flesh-and-blood hero--thanks to the stylistic and scholarly skill of Royce Gordon Shingleton."
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Shingleton was featured in an article entitled 'Rising Naval Historian' and as Ramsey stated, and still remains true today - Royce G. Shingleton's hallmarks are precision, deceptively easy prose, flowing narrative, and - vital for the military reader -
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Florida State University. His dissertation is entitled "Rural Life in the Old South: The British Travelers' Image, 1820-1860" (Photocopy Ann Arbor, MI, University Microfilms, 1971, 338 pp.), completed under the supervision of
202:, maneuvered the transfer of the state capital to Atlanta, and donated the land on which the Georgia capitol sits. This biography sheds new light on an extraordinary individual whose contributions continue to enrich the South and the nation.
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In addition to the publications listed above, Dr. Shingleton has also written over fifty articles, including peer book reviews, articles in historical journals, popular history magazines, reference books, and newspapers.
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