Contents -- Figures -- Abbreviations Used in the Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Burnside When He Was Brilliant: Ambrose Burnside and Union Combined Operations in Pamlico Sound -- A Thorn, Not a Dagger: Strategic Implications of Ambrose Burnside's North Carolina Campaign -- ''Very Crude Notions on the Subject'': William B. Franklin's Amphibious Assault at Eltham's Landing -- The Union Attack at Drewry's Bluff: An Opportunity Lost -- Union Combined Operations on the Texas Coast, 1863-64 -- Assailing Satan's Kingdom: Union Combined Operations at Charleston -- Grant Moves South: Combined Operations on the James River, 1864 -- Closing Down the Kingdom: Union Combined Operations Against Wilmington -- ' The Absence of Decisive Results'': British Assessments of Union Combined Operations -- Union Combined Operations in the Civil War: Lessons Learned, Lessons Forgotten -- Contributors -- Index.