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The Best Station of Them All
University of Alabama Press 2012; US$ 69.95The Best Station of Them All is the story of the Confederate navy’s Savannah Squadron, its relationship with the people of Savannah, Georgia, and its role in the city’s economy. In this well-written and extensively researched narrative, Maurice Melton charts the history of the unit, the sailors (both white and black), the officers,... more...
War on the Waters
The University of North Carolina Press 2012; US$ 35.00Although previously undervalued for their strategic impact because they represented only a small percentage of total forces, the Union and Confederate navies were crucial to the outcome of the Civil War. In War on the Waters , James M. McPherson has crafted an enlightening, at times harrowing, and ultimately thrilling account of the war's naval campaigns... more...
The Sinking of the USS Cairo
University Press of Mississippi 2012; US$ 25.00In 1862, in one of the South's most amazing secret operations, a Confederate team, using newly invented explosive mines, blew up the USS Cairo, one of the Union's most feared ironclad gunboats. It sank within minutes. The USS Cairo is the only remaining vessel from the Union navy's river fleet. For 102 years, the ironclad rested deep in... more...
Rebels on the Great Lakes
Dundurn 2011; US$ 13.99Since the terrorist attacks of 9/11, a myth has persisted that the hijackers entered the United States from Canada. Nevertheless, there was a time the U.S. Civil War when assaults on America were launched from Canada, but the aggressors were mostly fellow Americans engaged in a secessionist struggle. more...
The Atlantic Coast
Greystone Books 2011; US$ 31.95The North Atlantic coast of North America?commonly known as the Atlantic Coast?extends from Newfoundland and Labrador through the Maritime Provinces and the Northeastern United States south to Cape Hatteras. This North Atlantic region belongs to the sea. The maritime influence on climate, flora, and fauna is dominant ? even far inland. Both on land... more...
The CSS Arkansas
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 2011; US$ 45.00While the Monitor and Merrimack are the most famous of the Civil War ironclads, the Confederacy had another ship in its flotilla that carried high hopes and a metal hull. The makeshift CSS Arkansas, completed by Lt. Isaac Newton Brown and manned by a mixed crew of volunteers, gave the South a surge of confidence when it launched in 1862. For 28 days... more...
The Civil War Naval Encyclopedia
ABC-CLIO 2010; US$ 180.00Long overlooked in favor of land engagements, this is the first encyclopedia to analyze the naval aspects of the American Civil War. more...
The USS Carondelet
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 2010; US$ 55.00The USS Carondelet had a revolutionary ship design and was the most active of all the Union's Civil War river ironclads. From Fort Henry through the siege of Vicksburg and from the Red River campaign through the Battle of Nashville, the gunboat was prominent in war legend and literature. This history draws on the letters of Ensign Scott Dyer Jordan... more...
Bluejackets and Contrabands
The University Press of Kentucky 2010; US$ 39.95One of the lesser known stories of the Civil War is the role played by escaped slaves in the Union blockade along the Atlantic coast. From the beginning of the war, many African American refugees sought avenues of escape to the North. Due to their sheer numbers, those who reached Union forces presented a problem for the military. The problem was partially... more...
Sultana
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 12.99A powerful account of a surprisingly forgotten tragedy of the Civil War A stunning wartime account of human endurance and adventure, and an exploration of just how much the human body and mind can take, Sultana follows several young Union soldiers through the Civil War and what was, for them, its unimaginably disastrous aftermath. We see them... more...









