Gunboats or Ironclads: Virginians vs. the 'Cotton Kings'

Model from Freetimehobbies.com of a 'Maury Gunboat.' Confederates planned to build 100 of these for $2 million to defend their coast...

Mobile in the Confederacy

Images of Mobile, Alabama. From Harper's Weekly: After New Orleans, Mobile was the most important port on the Gulf coast for the Confed...

Upcoming HRNM/CWN 150/Mariners' Museum Events for March 2012

The Treason of Mary Louvestre After Hours Event at HRNM March 8, 2012 6:00 P.M.  FREE KICK OFF THE BATTLE OF HAMPTON ROADS WEEKEND AT HRNM!...

In Case You Missed It: Black History Month Highlights

In honor of African American history month, here are all previous post links to our "African American History Month Highlights" po...

Operations on the Savannah River - Early 1862

Tattnall's fleet engaging USN gunboats on the Savannah River (source - Naval History and Heritage Command on-line photo archive): After ...

Black History Month Highlight: Siah Carter

Siah Carter aboard USS Monitor Like many other African American slaves, Siah Carter sought freedom adn refure in the Union Navy along the  ...

Protecting CSS Virginia -- At All Costs

Harper's Weekly sketch of submarine attack on USS Minnesota in Hampton Roads in fall of 1861. (Library of Congress) Acting Master Willia...

African American Sailors and the Sesquicentennial: A Trend Worth Following

The social history of the sailor will take priority in how we continue to interpret the navy’s role.   Scholarship continues to detail how s...

Birth of the Brown Water Navy

One-hundred and fifty years ago this week, an important component to the Federal efforts in the Western Theater came to the fore - the Missi...

Salt Works Raids

Destruction of a salt works by the US Bark Kingfisher on the Florida Coast. Source: Fla. Dept. of State on-line photo archive. As the Civil...

CSS Nashville in England

The second Confederate commerce raider to put to sea was the steamer CSS Nashville . It was a problematic cruise and not nearly as successfu...