Rhett Butler-Romantic Blockade Runner

Rhett Butler is the legendary character and heart throb of the Civil War novel Gone With the Wind .  During the war, dashing and handsome Bu...

"Blacks in Blue Jackets" pamphlet available for download.

This past Friday (24 September), the Civil War Navy Sesquicentennial debuted its first publication at the 2010 Virginia Civil War Sesquicent...

New Blog Title Image

The new title image for this blog is a 1864 oil painting titled Battle of the U.S.S. Kearsarge and the C.S.S. Alabama , by Belgian artist Je...

USS Tyler: A Rather Useful Timberclad

Early in the war, the Army had requirement for light-draft, armed vessels to escort riverboats transporting troops and supplies along the we...

Upcoming Conference

The North Carolina Maritime History Council will hold its annual conference Thursday, September 30 through Saturday, October 2 in the colon...

On this date in Florida CW Naval History

On 17 September 1862, five Union Navy gunboats ( Paul Jones , Cimarron , Uncas , E.B. Hale , and Patroon ), under the command of Cdr. Charle...

A Brief History of the USS Constellation

The Constellation associated with the Civil War was the second ship of that name; the first was a frigate built in Baltimore that was in us...

THE DAHLGREN BOAT HOWITZER Perhaps one of the most versatile pieces of gunnery used by the US Navy during the Civil War was the Dahlgren bo...