First Battle of Fort Fisher

147 years ago on this day, Union Admiral David Dixon Porter and Major General Benjamin Butler teamed up against Confederate Major General Ro...

First Naval Engagement at Mobile Bay

Mobile Bay and the City of Mobile, Alabama, are seldom written or talked about in Civil War Naval History except in connection with the famo...

Dinner Party Talk that Changed the Civil War

In this rendering, President Abraham Lincoln has finished reading the Emancipation Proclamation to his cabinet. Sitting immediately to Linco...

BOHR Watercolor Contest at HRNM

American poet Amy Lowell once wrote: " Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the...

CSS Sumter Escapes-Again

Commander James Palmer, commanding officer of the steam sloop USS Iroquois , received word in mid-November 1861 that the Confederate cruiser...

The Blockade comes to Florida

I think historians of the Civil War Navies have established that blockade duty was boring, drudgery, tedious, taxing, (fill in your favorite...

Full Speed....er...Ahead?

Photo by Margot Kline A few months ago, we posted a short series of stories about a marker denoting the Knoxville area birthplace of histor...

Ward Room (and dogs) of USS Miami

For Friday, we present this image that is the subject of a make your own caption contest on the Hampton Roads Naval Museum's Facebook pa...