Seth Ledyard Phelps and the U.S. Navy, 1841-1864
by
Jay Slagle
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
Seth Ledyard Phelps was of the Old Navy and the New. As a midshipman and junior officer he served under sail off West Africa, in the War with Mexico, and in the Mediterranean and Caribbean. As a senior office in the river squadrons of the Civil War he saw combat at its closest.
Phelps,...