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United States Naval History: A Bibliography

NAVAL HISTORY BIBLIOGRAPHIES, NO. 1




NAVAL HISTORY BY PERIOD



Civil War-Biography



Barker, Albert S. Everyday Life in the Navy: Autobiography
of Rear Admiral Albert S. Barker. Boston: R. G. Badger, 1928.
422 pp.








  
Covers period from Civil War to 1905.





Cooling, Benjamin F. Benjamin Franklin Tracy: Father of
the Modern American Fighting Navy. Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books,
1973. 211 pp.



Cornish, Dudley T. Lincoln's Lee: The Life of Samuel Phillips
Lee, United States Navy, 1812-1897. Lawrence: University Press
of Kansas, 1986. 245 pp.



Dahlgren, Madeleine V. Memoir of John A. Dahlgren, Rear Admiral
United States Navy, by His Widow. New York: C. L. Webster,
1891. 660 pp.



Delaney, Norman C. John McIntosh Kell of the Raider Alabama.
University: Univ. of Alabama Press, 1973. 270 pp.



Du Pont, Henry A. Rear-Admiral Samuel Francis Du Pont, United
States Navy: A Biography. New York: National Americana Society,
1926. 320 pp.



Durkin, Joseph T. Stephen R. Mallory: Confederate Navy Chief.
Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1954. 446 pp. (Reprinted
1987 by the Univ. of South Carolina Press under title Confederate
Navy Chief: Stephen R. Mallory).



Eliot, George Fielding. Daring Sea Warrior, Franklin Buchanan.
New York: Messner, 1962. 191 pp.



Farragut, Loyall. The Life of David Glasgow Farragut, First
Admiral of the United States Navy, Embodying His Journal and Letters,
by his son, Loyall Farragut. New York: Appleton, 1879. 586 pp.
(Reprinted by Library Resources as LAC Microbook).



Fullam, George T. The Journal of George Townley Fullam, Boarding
Officer of the Confederate Sea Raider Alabama. Edited by Charles
G. Summersell. University: Univ. of Alabama Press, 1973. 229 pp.



Graves, Henry L. A Confederate Marine: A Sketch of Henry Lea
Graves With Excerpts From the Graves Family Correspondence, 1861-1865.
Edited by Richard Harwell. Tuscaloosa, Ala.: Confederate Pub.
Co., 1963. 140 pp.



Hill, Jim Dan. The Civil War Sketchbook of Charles Ellery Stedman:
Surgeon, United States Navy. Biography and commentary by Jim
Dan Hill. San Rafael, Calif.: Presidio Press, 1976. 218 pp.



-----. Sea Dogs of the Sixties: Farragut and Seven Contemporaries.
Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press, 1935. 265 pp.








  
Seven contemporaries are James D. Bulloch, Charles Wilkes,
  John Wilkinson, John Rodgers II, Charles W. Read, John A. Winslow,
  and James I. Waddell.





Hoole, William S. Four Years in the Confederate Navy: The
Career of Captain John Low on the C.S.S. Fingal, Florida, Alabama,
Tuscaloosa, and Ajax. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press, 1964.
147 pp.



Hoppin, James M. Life of Andrew Hull Foote, Rear Admiral United
States Navy. New York: Harper & Bros., 1874. 411 pp.



Lewis, Charles L. Admiral Franklin Buchanan, Fearless Man of
Action. Baltimore: Norman, Remington, 1929. 285 pp.



-----. David Glasgow Farragut. Annapolis: U.S. Naval Institute,
1941-43. 2 vols.



Macartney, Clarence E. Mr. Lincoln's Admirals. New York:
Funk & Wagnalls, 1956. 335 pp.



Marchand, John B. Charleston Blockade: The Journals of John
B. Marchand, U.S. Navy, 1861-1862. Edited by Craig L. Symonds.
Historical Monograph Series, No. 2. Newport, R.I.: Naval War College
Press, 1975. 287 pp.



Merrill, James M. Du Pont, the Making of an Admiral: A Biography
of Samuel Francis Du Pont. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1986. 316
pp.



Niven, John. Gideon Welles: Lincoln's Secretary of the Navy.
New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1973. 676 pp.



Roske, Ralph J., and Charles Van Doren. Lincoln's Commando:
The Biography of Commander W. B. Cushing, U.S.N. New York:
Harper & Bros., 1957. 310 pp. 



Selfridge, Thomas O., Jr. Memoirs of Thomas O. Selfridge, Jr.,
Rear Admiral, U.S.N. New York: Putnam 1924. 288 pp. (Reprinted
1987 by Univ. of South Carolina Press with introduction by William
N. Still, Jr., under the title What Finer Tradition).



Semmes, Raphael. Service Afloat: Or, the Remarkable Career
of the Confederate Cruisers Sumter and Alabama, During the War
Between the States. Baltimore: Baltimore Pub. Co., 1887. 833
pp.



Shingleton, Royce G. John Taylor Wood: Sea Ghost of the Confederacy.
Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press, 1979. 242 pp.



Sloan, Edward William. Benjamin Franklin Isherwood, Naval Engineer:
The Years as Engineer in Chief, 1861-1869. Annapolis: U.S.
Naval Institute, 1966. 299 pp.



Waddell, James I. C.S.S. Shenandoah: The Memoirs of Lieutenant
Commanding James I. Waddell. Edited by James D. Horan. New
York: Crown, 1960. 200 pp.



West, Richard S. Gideon Welles, Lincoln's Navy Department.
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1943. 379 pp.



-----. The Second Admiral: A Life of David Dixon Porter, 1813-1891.
New York: Coward-McCann, 1937. 376 pp.