Civil War

PEOPLE

Biographies

• Daniel Ammen, Rear Admiral
• George Bancroft, Secretary of the Navy
• Alexander Berry Bates, Captain
• Kidder Randolph Breese, Captain
• George Dewey, Admiral
• David Glasgow Farragut, Admiral
• Stephen B. Luce, Rear Admiral
• Alfred Thayer Mahan, Rear Admiral
• Matthew Fontaine Maury
• Daniel Boone Ridgely, Commordore

RESOURCES

• Battle of Hampton Roads
• Civil War Naval Chronology
• Civil War Naval Bibliography
• Civil War Naval Biographies
• Civil War Naval Museum
• Letter from Admiral Farragut to Rear Admiral Porter
• Letter from Admiral Farragut to his wife

INTERESTING READS

• Battle of Mobile Bay
• Battle of Mobile Bay (5 August 1864): Selected Documents
• Civil War - Technology
• Civil War at Sea
• Brief Naval Chronology - Civil War (1861-65)
• The Battle of Hampton Roads, Origins of Ordnance Testing Against Armor
• Confederate Ships Afloat


• CSS Alabama, wreck
• Civil War Battle Streamer
• On-line book - Captain Raphael Semmes and CSS Alabama
• Selected Civil War Documents
• Emancipation Proclamation
• Eye-Witness Account - Battle Between USS Monitor and CSS Virginia (formerly USS Merrimack), March 9th, 1862
• On-line book - Going South: US Navy Officer Resignations & Dismissals On the Eve of Civil War
• H.L. Hunley, wreck
• Medal: Civil War
• 1865 Register of Officers on Navy Yards, Shore Stations & Vessels
• Signals For the Use of the Navy of the Confederate States
• On-line book - Confederate States' Ship Virginia (Once Merrimac) Her Victory Over the Monitor
• USS Tecumseh, wreck
• Uniform Regulations, 1864