Although previously undervalued for their strategic impact because they represented only a small percentage of total forces, the Union and Confederate navies we

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

When the Civil War finally came to North Florida, it did so with an intermittent fury that destroyed much of Jacksonville and scattered its residents. The city

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