Counter Offensive at Galveston and the Capture of Harriet Lane

 USN map of the 1863 action at Galveston Confederate offensives took a sharp increase in 1863.  On the western side of the Confederacy...

War on the Periphery-U.S. Naval Forces Capture Galveston, Texas

The port of Galveston, Texas represented the far western edge of Civil War Naval activity.  Before the war, the port did brisk business in t...