Table of Contents

Arming the Bluejacket
By Ron Field

William S. Lovell: Confederate Army Riverine Expert
By Neil P. Chatelain

Selma and the Confederate Navy
By William E. Lockridge

Harper’s Weekly: Civil War Naval Illustrations
By Gary McQuarrie and Charles Williams

Thunder Along the James: Lt. Charles W. Read, CSN and
the Battle of Trent’s Reach
By R. Thomas Campbell

Historical Reprint: Closing Operations in the James River
By Professor James Russell Soley

Navy Yards: Richmond, Virginia, 1861-1865
By Ron Field

Naval Bookshelf: Gabriel Rains and the Confederate Torpedo Bureau
Reviewed By Katie Brown

MI: The Lieutenant Who Nearly Drowned Abraham Lincoln
By Ronald S. Coddington