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

As many as one in six Union navy sailors was African American, many of them former slaves. This richly detailed history shows that the free blacks and "contraba

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 naval historian presents a “well-written, fast-paced” study of Civil War riverine combat based on the personal accounts of officers and sailors (Civil W

Pushing aside the long-held belief that the answers went up in flames when the Confederate Navy archives were torched during the evacuation of Richmond, Luraghi