Blockade Running at Mobile Bay

Steam sloop USS Pocahontas capturing a blockade runner off Mobile Bay (source; Library of Congress archives): In a prior post ( 18 February ...

CWN History Announcement

The Museum of Florida History, in Tallahassee, is "the" official Florida history museum. From 1 May to 5 August of this year they ...

The Hosptial Transport Service

Daniel Webster In 1861, almost no one predicted the shear bloodshed that would be caused by the ground fighting during the Civil War.  Fort...

Drewry's Bluff Weekend Recap

The Civil War Navy Sesquicentennial/ Hampton Roads Naval Museum was in attendance at this past weekend's sesquicentennial commemoration...

Iron Men Afloat: USS Monitor Sign Dedication

This is another post to a multi-part series with the Civil War Monitor Magazine blog entitled "Iron Men Afloat."  Cross postings w...

A Battlefield Lost: Plum Point Bend

Old river-men say each bend in the Mississippi River has at least one story to tell.  Well Plum Point and Craighead Bends collectively have...

Richmond Press Blasts Mallory on Capital Defenses.

Navy photo: The Richmond press and soon the Confederate Congress questioned Stephen Mallory’s competence as Navy secretary. For all Navy Sec...

CSS Virginia's Firestorm

After many unsuccessful attempts to bring Monitor to battle in April 1862, Commodore Josiah Tattnall and CSS Virginia faced a major crisis...

St. Johns River Steamboats in the Civil War

Confederate steamboat Darlington , captured by Union forces near Fernandina and converted into a Union gunboat of the same name: Here's ...

Battle of New Orleans-USN Takes Over the City

With the forts bypassed and the Confederate/state ships either destroyed or put to flight, Farragut's squadron steamed north.  Smaller f...