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Bibliography
Series Page NAVAL HISTORY BIBLIOGRAPHIES, NO. 1
NAVAL HISTORY BY PERIOD
Civil War, 1861-1865
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of the Naval Engineer Corps . . . . Pittsburgh: Warren, 1896.
953 pp. (Reprinted 1970 by Greenwood).
-----. The Monitor and the Navy Under Steam. Boston: Houghton
Mifflin, 1900. 369 pp.
Bernath, Stuart L. Squall Across the Atlantic: American Civil
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Bigelow, John. France and the Confederate Navy, 1862-1868:
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Blay, John S. The Civil War: A Pictorial Profile. New York:
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Boykin, Edward C. Ghost Ship of the Confederacy: The Story
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Bradlee, Francis B. C. Blockade Running During the Civil War
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Originally reprinted from the Historical Collections of the Essex Institute, Vols. 60 and 61.
Bradlow, Edna and Frank. Here Comes the Alabama: The Career
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1958. 128 pp. (Distributed in U.S. by Verry).
Bulloch, James D. The Secret Service of the Confederate States
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Carse, Robert. Blockade: The Civil War at Sea. New York:
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Cochran, Hamilton. Blockade Runners of the Confederacy.
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Cooling, Benjamin Franklin. Forts Henry and Donelson: The Key
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Courtemanche, Regis A. No Need of Glory: The British Navy in
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Cranwell, John P. Spoilers of the Sea: Wartime Raiders in the
Age of Steam. New York: Norton, 1941. 308 pp. (Reprinted 1970
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Cunningham, Edward. The Port Hudson Campaign, 1862-1863.
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press, 1963. 174 pp.
Daly, Robert W. How the Merrimac Won: The Strategic Story of
the C.S.S. Virginia. New York: Crowell, 1957. 211 pp.
Davis, William C. Duel Between the First Ironclads. Garden
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Donovan, Frank R. Ironclads of the Civil War. American
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pp.
Dudley, William S. Going South: U.S. Navy Officer Resignations
& Dismissals on the Eve of the Civil War. Naval Historical
Foundation Publication, Series 2, No. 27. Washington: Naval Historical
Foundation, 1981. 55 pp.
Dufour, Charles L. The Night the War Was Lost. Garden City,
N.Y.: Doubleday, 1960. 427 pp.
An account of the Battle of New Orleans.
Du Pont, Samuel F. Samuel Francis Du Pont: A Selection From
His Civil War Letters. Edited by John D. Hayes. Ithaca, N.Y.:
Cornell Univ. Press, 1969. 3 vols.
Eller, Ernest M., and Dudley W. Knox. The Civil War at Sea.
Washington: Naval Historical Foundation, 1961. 22 pp.
Fowler, William M. Under Two Flags: The American Navy in the
Civil War. New York: Norton, 1990. 352 pp.
Fox, Gustavus V. Confidential Correspondence of Gustavus V.
Fox, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, 1861-1865. Edited by
Robert M. Thompson and Richard Wainwright. New York: Naval History
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Hoehling, Adolph A. Thunder at Hampton Roads. Englewood
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Jameson, Edwin M., and Sanford Sternlicht. The Black Devil
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1970. 205 pp.
Johnson, Ludwell H. Red River Campaign: Politics and Cotton
in the Civil War. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1958. 318
pp.
Jones, Virgil C. The Civil War at Sea. New York: Holt,
1960-62. 3 vols.
Jones, Wilbur D. The Confederate Rams at Birkenhead: A Chapter
in Anglo-American Relations. Tuscaloosa, Ala.: Confederate
Pub. Co., 1961. 124 pp.
Keeler, William F. Aboard the USS Florida, 1863-65: The Letters
of Paymaster William Frederick Keeler, to His Wife, Anna.
Edited by Robert W. Daly. Annapolis: U.S. Naval Institute, 1968.
252 pp.
-----. Aboard the USS Monitor, 1862: The Letters of Acting
Paymaster William Frederick Keeler, U.S. Navy, to His Wife, Anna.
Edited by Robert W. Daly. Annapolis: U.S. Naval Institute, 1964.
278 pp.
MacBride, Robert. Civil War Ironclads: The Dawn of Naval Armor.
Philadelphia: Chilton, 1962. 185 pp.
McCordock, Robert S. The Yankee Cheese Box. Philadelphia:
Dorrance, 1938. 470 pp.
Melton, Maurice. The Confederate Ironclads. So. Brunswick,
N.J.: Yoseloff, 1968. 319 pp.
Merli, Frank J. Great Britain and the Confederate Navy, 1861-1865.
Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press, 1970. 342 pp.
-----. "The Confederate Navy, 1861-1865." In In Peace
and War: Interpretations of American Naval History, 1775-1984,
2d ed., edited by Kenneth J. Hagan, 126-144. Westport, Conn.:
Greenwood, 1984.
Merrill, James M. Battle Flags South: The Story of the Civil
War Navies on Western Waters. Rutherford, N.J.: Fairleigh
Dickinson Univ. Press, 1970. 334 pp.
-----. The Rebel Shore: The Story of Union Sea Power in the
Civil War. Boston: Little, Brown, 1957. 246 pp.
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Ensign Symmes E. Browne. Annapolis: U.S. Naval Institute,
1970. 327 pp.
-----. Gunboats Down the Mississippi. Annapolis: U.S. Naval
Institute, 1965. 217 pp.
Munden, Kenneth W., and Henry P. Beers. Guide to Federal Archives
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National Archives and Records Service, General Services Administration,
1962. 721 pp.
The Navy in the Civil War. New York: Scribner, 1883. 3
vols. (Reprinted 1959 by Blue & Grey; 1968 by B. Franklin).
Vol. 1, The Blockade and the Cruisers by James R. Soley. 257 pp.
Vol. 2, The Atlantic Coast by Daniel Ammen. 273 pp.
Vol. 3, The Gulf and Inland Waters by Alfred T. Mahan. 267 pp.
Owsley, Frank L., Jr. The CSS Florida: Her Building and
Operations. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 1965.
208 pp.
Peterson, Harold L. Notes on Ordnance of the American Civil
War, 1861-1865. Washington: American Ordnance Assn., 1959.
20 pp.
Porter, David D. Naval History of the Civil War. New York:
Sherman, 1886. 843 pp.
Price, Marcus W. "Blockade Running as a Business in South
Carolina During the War Between the States, 1861-1865." American
Neptune 9 (January 1949): 31-62.
-----. "Four From Bristol." American Neptune
17 (October 1957): 249-261.
-----. "Ships That Tested the Blockade of the Carolina Ports,
1861-1865." American Neptune 8 (July 1948): 196-241.
-----. "Ships That Tested the Blockade of the Georgia and
East Florida Ports, 1861-1865." American Neptune 15
(January 1955): 97-132.
-----. "Ships That Tested the Blockade of the Gulf Ports,
1861-1865." American Neptune 2 (January 1951): 262-290;
12 (1952): 52-59, 154-161, 229-239.
Reed, Rowena. Combined Operations in the Civil War. Annapolis:
Naval Institute Press, 1978. 468 pp.
Robinson, William M., Jr. The Confederate Privateers. New
Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1928. 372 pp. (Reprinted 1990 by Univ.
of South Carolina Press).
Scharf, John T. History of the Confederate States Navy From
Its Organization to the Surrender of Its Last Vessel . . .
New York: Rogers & Sherwood, 1887. 824 pp. (Reprinted 1969
by Books for Libraries).
Silverstone, Paul H. Warships of the Civil War Navies.
Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1989. 271 pp.
Sinclair, Arthur. Two Years on the Alabama. Boston: Lee
& Shepard, 1896. 344 pp. (Reprinted 1989 by Naval Institute
Press).
Spencer, Warren F. The Confederate Navy in Europe. University:
Univ. of Alabama Press, 1983. 268 pp.
Stern, Philip Van Doren. Confederate Navy: A Pictorial History.
Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1962. 252 pp.
Still, William N., Jr. Confederate Shipbuilding. Athens:
Univ. of Georgia Press, 1969. 110 pp.
-----. Iron Afloat: The Story of the Confederate Armorclads.
Nashville, Tenn.: Vanderbilt Univ. Press, 1971. 260 pp.
Summersell, Charles G. CSS Alabama: Builder, Captain, and Plans.
University: Univ. of Alabama Press, 1985. 135 pp.
-----. The Cruise of C.S.S. Sumter. Tuscaloosa, Ala.: Confederate
Pub. Co., 1965. 187 pp.
U.S. Naval History Division. Civil War Naval Chronology, 1861-1865.
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Originally published in six parts, plus index, 1961-1966.
-----. Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.
Edited by James L. Mooney and others. Washington: GPO 1959-.
Appendix 2, vol. 2, entitled "Confederate Forces Afloat," includes ships' histories and data, with annexes on Confederate Privateers, the River Defense Fleet, the Texas Marine Department and the Stone Fleet. Appendix 1, vol. 5, includes an account of the Union Stone Fleets.
U.S. Office of Naval Records and Library. Official Records
of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion.
Washington: GPO, 1894-1922.
Series 1, 27 vols.; Series 2, 3 vols.; General Index, 1927.
Wegner, Dana M. "The Union Navy, 1861-1865." In In
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Welles, Gideon. Diary. Edited by Howard K. Beale. New York:
Norton, 1960. 3 vols.
Welles served as Secretary of the Navy under Presidents Lincoln and Johnson. Diary originally published in 1911 by Houghton Mifflin. New edition indicates all additions, alterations, and omissions made either by Welles or by the editor.
Wells, Tom H. The Confederate Navy: A Study in Organization.
University: Univ. of Alabama Press, 1971. 182 pp.
West, Richard S. Mr. Lincoln's Navy. New York: Longmans,
Green, 1957. 328 pp.
Westwood, Howard C. "Benjamin Butler's Naval Brigade."
Civil War History 34 (1988): 253-270.
White, William C., and Ruth. Tin Can on a Shingle. New
York: Dutton, 1957. 176 pp.
Wilson, Herbert W. Ironclads in Action: A Sketch of Naval Warfare
From 1855 to 1895, With Some Account of the Development of the
Battleship in England. Boston: Little, Brown, 1896. 2 vols.
Vol. 1: 1-209 covers the Civil War.
Wise, Stephen R. Lifeline of the Confederacy: Blockade Running During the Civil War. Columbia: Univ. of South Carolina Press, 1988. 403 pp.