Union Vessel Logbooks (Deck Logs) Digitized on National Archives Website
Logbook Mortar Division, Western Flotilla
Union Vessel Muster Rolls Digitized on National Archives Website
UNION NAVY PUBLICATIONS
Ordnance
Foxhall A. Parker. The Naval Howitzer Ashore (New York, NY: D. Van Nostrand, 1865).
Alexander L. Holley. A Treatise on Ordnance and Armor (New York, NY: D. Van Nostrand, 1865).
UNION NAVAL OFFICERS
James Russell Soley. Great Commanders: Admiral Porter (New York, NY: D. Appleton and Company, 1903).
U.S. MARINE CORPS
See also:
Edward T. Cotham, Jr. The Southern Journey of a Civil War Marine: The Illustrated Note-Book of Henry O. Gusley (Austin, TX: The University of Texas Press, 2009).
Charles H. Cureton and David M. Sullivan. The Civil War Uniforms of the United States Marine Corps: The Regulations of 1859 (San Jose, CA: R. James Bender Publishing, 2009).
Ron Field. American Civil War Marines 1861-65 (Oxford, United Kingdom: Osprey Publishing, 2004).
Christine Friesel. The Boys of Bath: The Civil War Diary of Pvt. Charles Brother, USMC (Bloomington, IN: Charley Brother, LLC, 2021).
Mary P. Livingston. A Civil War Marine at Sea: The Diary of Medal of Honor Recipient Miles M. Oviatt (Shippensburg, PA: White Mane Publishing, 1998).
Wesley Moody and Adrienne Sachse, Editors. The Diary of a Civil War Marine: Private Josiah Gregg (Vancouver, British Columbia: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2013 and Lanham, MD: The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., 2013).
David M. Sullivan. Marines of the Civil War: The Officers, Honors, Record, and Regulations (Morrisville, NC: Lulu Press, 2019).
David M. Sullivan. The United States Marine Corps in the Civil War—The First Year (Shippensburg, PA: White Mane Publishing Company, Inc., 1997); The Second Year (1997); The Third Year (1998); The Final Year (2000).
CONFEDERATE STATES NAVY PUBLICATIONS
Confederate States Navy Department. Report of the Secretary of the Navy (Richmond, VA, 1864).
John Johnson. The Defense of Charleston Harbor Including Fort Sumter and the Adjacent Islands—1863-1865. (Charleston, SC: Walker, Evans & Cogswell Company, Publishers, 1890).
Laws for the Army and Navy of the Confederate States (Richmond, VA: Ritchie & Dunnavant, 1861).
Ordnance
CONFEDERATE STATES NAVAL ACADEMY
See also:
R. Thomas Campbell. Academy on the James: The Confederate Naval School (Shippensburg, PA: Burd Street Press, 1998).
Winston Folk. The Confederate States Naval Academy, U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings, Volume LX, No. 379, September 1934, p 1235-1240.
G. Melvin Herndon. The Confederate States Naval Academy. The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Volume 69, No. 3, July 1961, p 300-323.
Hardin B. Littlepage. With the Crew of the Virginia—Part II, Civil War Times Illustrated, Volume XIII, No. 2, May 1974, p 36-43.
Hubbard Taylor Minor, Jr. “I Am Getting A Good Education”: An Unpublished Diary by a Cadet at the Confederate Naval Academy. Civil War Times Illustrated, Volume XIII, No. 7, November 1974, p 24-32.
James H. Rochelle. The Confederate Steamship “Patrick Henry,” Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume XIV, 1886, p 126-136.
CONFEDERATE STATES NAVAL OFFICERS
James Morris Morgan. Recollections of a Rebel Reefer (Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1917).
CONFEDERATE MARINE CORPS
See also:
Ralph W. Donnelly. Battle Honors and Services of Confederate Marines, Military Affairs, Volume 23, No. 1 (Spring), 1959, p 37-40.
Ralph W. Donnelly. Biographical Sketches of the Commissioned Officers of the Confederate States Marine Corps (Washington, NC: Self-published, Revised Edition, 1983).
Ralph W. Donnelly. The Confederate States Marine Corps (Shippensburg, PA: White Mane Publishing Company, Inc., 1989).
Ralph W. Donnelly. Service Records of Confederate Enlisted Marines (Washington, NC: Self-published, 1979).
Robert J. Driver Jr. Confederate Sailors, Marines, and Signalmen from Virginia and Maryland (Westminster, MD: Heritage Books, 2007).
Ron Field. American Civil War Marines 1861-65 (Oxford, United Kingdom: Osprey Publishing, 2004).
Michael E. Krivdo. Confederate Marine Corps Recruiting in New Orleans and Marine Activities in the First Year of the Civil War. Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association, Volume 48, No. 4 (Fall 2007), p 441-446.
Alan P. Marion. Marines for the Confederacy, Civil War Times Illustrated, Volume XVII, No. 7, November 1978, p 28-36.
David M. Sullivan. Marines of the Civil War: The Officers, Honors, Record, and Regulations (Morrisville, NC: Lulu Press, 2019).
David M. Sullivan. The Marines. In: William N. Still, Jr., Editor. The Confederate Navy: The Ships, Men and Organization, 1861-65 (London: Conway Maritime Press, 1997), p 147-174.
CONFEDERATE BLOCKADE RUNNERS
Hobart Pasha. Sketches from My Life (New York, NY: D. Appleton and Company, 1887).
James Sprunt. Derelicts (Baltimore, MD: The Lord Baltimore Press, 1920).
John Wilkinson. The Narrative of a Blockade-Runner (New York, NY: Sheldon & Company, 1877).
See also (under copyright or available online):
Colin Carlin. Captain James Carlin (Columbia, SC: The University of South Carolina Press, 2017).
Dawson Carr. Gray Phantoms of the Cape Fear: Running the Civil War Blockade (Winston-Salem, NC: John F. Blair, Publisher, 1998).
Robert Carse. Blockade: The Civil War at Sea ((New York, NY: Rinehart & Company, 1958).
Hamilton Cochran. Blockade Runners of the Confederacy (Indianapolis, IN: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc, 1958).
Eric J. Graham. Clyde Built: Blockade Runners, Cruisers and Armoured Rams of the American Civil War (Edinburgh, UK: Birlinn, Ltd., 2006).]
Morris H. Ludington. Postal History of Blockade Running Through Bermuda, 1861-1865 (Lilburn, GA: British Caribbean Philatelic Study Group, 1996).
Jim McNeil. Masters of the Shoals: Gales of the Cape Fear Pilots Who Ran the Union Blockade (Boston, MA: Da Capo Press, Inc., 2003).
Gerald Reading Powell, Matthew C. Cordon, J. Barto Arnold. Civil War Blockade-runners: Prize Claims and the Historical Record, Including Denbigh’s Court Documents (College Station, TX: Institute of Nautical Archaeology, 2012).
Marcus W. Price. Ships that Tested the Blockade of the Carolina Ports, 1861-1865. The American Neptune, Volume VIII, No. 2, p 196-241, April 1948. [available at hathitrust.org]
Marcus W. Price. Blockade Running as a Business in South Carolina During the War between the States, 1861-1865. The American Neptune, Volume IX, No. 1, p 31-62, January 1949. [available at hathitrust.org]
Marcus W. Price. Ships That Tested the Blockade of the Gulf Ports. The American Neptune, Volume XI, No. 4, p 262-290, October 1951. [available at hathitrust.org]
Marcus W. Price. Ships That Tested the Blockade of the Gulf Ports, Part II. The American Neptune, Volume XII, No. 1, p 52-59, January 1952. [available at hathitrust.org]
Marcus W. Price. Ships That Tested the Blockade of the Gulf Ports, Part III. The American Neptune, Volume XII, No. 2, p 154-161, April 1952. [available at hathitrust.org]
Marcus W. Price. Ships That Tested the Blockade of the Gulf Ports, Part IV. The American Neptune, Volume XII, No. 1, p 229-238, July 1952. [available at hathitrust.org]
Marcus W. Price. Ships That Tested the Blockade of the Georgia and East Florida Ports. The American Neptune, Volume XV, No. 2, p 97-132, April 1955. [available at hathitrust.org]
Robert Thorp. Mersey Built: The Role of Merseyside in the American Civil War (Wilmington, DE: Vernon Press, 2017).
Frank E. Vandiver. Confederate Blockade Running Through Bermuda 1861-1865: Letters and Cargo Manifests (Austin, TX: The University of Texas Press, 1948).
Glen A. Wiche, Editor. Dispatches from Bermuda: The Civil War Letters of Charles Maxwell Allen, United States Consul at Bermuda, 1861-1888 (Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1988).
Stephen R. Wise. Lifeline of the Confederacy: Blockade Running During the Civil War (Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1988).
CONFEDERATE CRUISERS
Colyer Meriwether. Raphael Semmes (Philadelphia, PA: George W. Jacobs & Company, Publishers, 1913).
Arthur Sinclair. Two Years on the Alabama (Boston, MA: Lee and Shepard Publishers, 1896).
NAVY YARDS
Cairo and Mound City Naval Station
Charleston Naval Station, 1861-1865
Richmond, Virginia, 1861-1865.
ILLUSTRATED NEWSPAPERS: CIVIL WAR NAVAL ILLUSTRATIONS
Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper: Civil War Naval Illustrations
Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper: Civil War Naval Cartoons
Harper’s Weekly: Civil War Naval Cartoons
Harper’s Weekly: Civil War Naval Illustrations
New York Illustrated News: Civil War Naval Illustrations
NAVAL ILLUSTRATORS
C.E.H. Bonwill: ‘Special Artist’ for Leslie’s
William T. Crane: ‘Special Artist’ for Leslie’s
Henri H. Lovie: ‘Special Artist’ for Leslie’s
Arthur Lumley: ‘Special Artist’ for Leslie’s and NYIN
Bradley Sillick Osbon: Sailor-Journalist-‘Special Artist’ for Harper’s
Francis (Frank) Henry Schell: ‘Special Artist’ for Leslie’s
Frederic (Fred.) B. Schell: ‘Special Artist’ for Leslie’s
Alexander Simplot: ‘Special Artist” for Harper’s
Isaac Walton Taber: Century’s Civil War Illustrator
Herbert E. Valentine: Soldier-Illustrator
William Waud: ‘Special Artist’ for Leslie’s and Harper’s
Robert Fulton Weir: Sailor-‘Artist’ for Harper’s