New Images of USS Cumberland & CSS Florida Wrecks

USS Cumberland , starboard side USS Cumberland , bow looking forward CSS Florida , from top  CSS Florida , starboard side The Hampton Roads...

Welles considers torpedo attack on CSS Virginia

As the Union Army commanders dithered over attacking Confederate-held Norfolk and Portsmouth, the Union Navy reeled under the attack of CS...

Updates and Admiral's Row: Week of 21 November 2011

On This Day: 21 November 2011: Coming from our friends at the Museum of the Confederacy :  On this day in 1861, CSA forts McRee, Barrancas, ...

Union Navy Fends Off Mine Attacks in Hampton Roads.

Early in the Civil War, it wasn’t the electrically-triggered torpedoes set up in long and deadly water ranges that later so troubled Union N...

Artillery Duel at Pensacola Bay

Artillery engagement on Pensacola Bay on 22-23 November 1861. Santa Rosa Island, Ft. Pickens, and Union batteries on the island are in the ...

Hampton Roads Surface Navy Association Talk: Steam and Iron

Last month (October 19, 2011), I had the fortunate opportunity to speak at the Hampton Roads Surface Navy Association meeting and luncheon ...

USS Hartford Stern Emblem

Stern emblem of the Hartford today (HRNM) During a recent trip to HRNM's collection storage, my coworker and fellow CWN 150 blogger...

Ode to Civil War Naval Engineers and Firemen

 USS Pensacola 's engineers (center and right) talk to one of Pensacola 's line officers (at left) Attempting to cold crank the boi...

New Guest Blogger: John Grady

It is my pleasure to welcome aboard the newest guest blogger of the Civil War Navy Sesquicentennial, John Grady.  Grady is an accomplished h...

The Navy Strikes at Belmont

With Leonidas Polk's Confederate army straddling the Mississippi in the autumn of 1861, local Union commander Brig. General U.S. Grant p...

The Confederate Navy at Port Royal

Flag Officer Josiah Tattnall and his mosquito fleet saw their share of action during the Battle for Port Royal. Tattnall had a reputation fo...

New Port Royal Commemorative Events

Our friends at the South Carolina Civil War 150th pointed out to us some other commemorative events coming up in the upcoming week. Here i...

Brother Against Brother at Port Royal

Percival Drayton was born in the South, but remained loyal to the Union when war came. This resulted in a situation that is often reference...

Storms off the South Carolina coast

The morning of 3 November 1861 off the coast of Port Royal, SC was stormy, both literally and figuratively. The coast was still being brushe...

Navy Leadership at Port Royal

As described in our previous post, this week we will be highlighting the Battle of Port Royal.  This was an historic event for the United St...