Porter's Mortar Fleet in Hampton Roads

Many historians and enthusiasts agree that the U.S. Navy's James River Flotilla was ill-equipped to attack the Confederate garrison at F...

Preparing for Battle in Northeast North Carolina

 The combined fleet of the "Burnside Expedition," as it left Hampton Roads for Cape Hatteras With Cape Hatteras secured Union gr...

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...