Setting Up a Navy Yard in Charlotte, 1862

 1877 map of Charlotte, "Carolina Central R.R.," "R.M. Oates," and Hutchison were the location  of the Charlotte Navy...

CSS Alabama is Commissioned

Before the cruiser CSS Alabama could begin her famous campaigns, she had to get out of England without being impounded by British authoritie...

CSS Arkansas is Lost: August 1862

The castemate ironclad CSS Arkansas was a one ship wrecking crew on the Mississippi River .  The ironclad interfered with Union plans to ta...

Farragut's Punitive Raid on Donaldsonville

If siege craft could be classified as an occurrence where ancient rules of war still applied and honor still existed, guerrilla/partisan act...

CSS Florida is Commissioned and Puts to Sea

In late July, Confederate Lieutenant John Newland Maffitt arrived in Nassau, Bahamas aboard one of his blockade runners.  Soon after arrivin...

New Book Out on Blockade Runners

It's always important to let readers know when scholarship on the Civil War navies is available.  With the anticipated release of James ...