A companion volume to Nelson's Navy and The Confederate Navy, this is a complete history of the Union Navy. As with both other works, the author looks not only

The Union inland navy that became the Mississippi Squadron is one of the greatest, yet least studied aspects of the Civil War. Without it, however, the war in t

This captivating book details the life of one of the Union navy's most heroic young officers and his involvement in the Southern blockade and the sinking of the

Abraham Lincoln began his presidency admitting that he knew "but little of ships," but he quickly came to preside over the largest national armada to that time,

"Weddle reveals that the admiral was the victim of a double irony: although Du Pont championed technological innovation, he outspokenly opposed the use of the n