Table of Contents

Gunboatmen: Gallery of Sailors on the Western Waters
By Ron Field

Ordeal of the Confederate Gunboat J. A. Cotton
By R. Thomas Campbell

Entertainment, the Sabbath, and Holidays in the Confederate Navy
By Barbara Brooks Tomblin

Battle of Wassaw Sound: “Forgotten” Clashof Ironclads
By Andrew Roscoe

Historical Reprint: The Early Monitors
By Captain John Ericsson

Naval Illustrators: Herbert E. Valentine: Soldier-Illustrator
By Gary McQuarrie

Navy Yards: Cairo and Mound City Naval Station
By Ron Field

Modelers Aboard: The Dumas Boats Kit USS Monitor and CSS Virginia
By Steve Lund and William Hathaway

From the Naval Archives: Politics on an Ironclad: Walter Jacobs and the Election of 1864
By Daniel Glenn

From the Naval Archives: ‘Treacherous Language While in a Passion’
By Hannah Broughton

Naval Bookshelf “Our Little Monitor”
The Greatest Invention of the Civil War
Reviewed By J. Michael Moore

MI: Deadly Convoy
By Ronald S. Coddington