Confederate Ironclads Attack the Charleston Blockade

CSS Palmetto State The Confederate States Navy had two ironclads of note defending Charleston: CSS Palmetto State and CSS Chicora .  The sq...

Chasing After CSS Nashville: November 19, 1862

 A Northern newspaper cartoon mocking the U.S. Navy's inability to capture CSS Nashville.  CSS Nashville was the Confederate State g...

Naval Engagement at St. Johns Bluff - Part II

USS Paul Jones (From Naval History and Heritage Command archives) Reports of the firing on the gunboats USS Uncas and Patroon on 11 Septemb...

Naval Engagement at St. Johns Bluff - Part I

Harper's Weekly drawing of the Confederate Battery at St. Johns Bluff (Source: Florida Dept. of State Archives) In prior posts, I highli...

Naval Siege of Charleston Begins, June 1862

The New York Times lists the ships blockading Charleston in June 1862 for the benefit of its readers...and for Confederate authorities seek...

"The enemy entered Palatka"

Palatka (where I live) is a small town on the St. Johns River about 40 miles south of Jacksonville, Florida. The name of the town comes from...

Union occupation of Ft. Clinch, Fernandina, Florida

Ft. Clinch, at the northern tip of Amelia Island, after recapture by Union forces: While attention focused, then and now, on the impending b...

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 ...