Success Is All That Was Expected: The South Atlantic Blockading Squadron During the Civil War

Iron Afloat: The Story of the Confederate Armorclads by William N. Still, Jr.

Iron Afloat: The Story of the Confederate Armorclads

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Blue & Gray Navies: The Civil War Afloat by Spencer C. Tucker

Blue & Gray Navies: The Civil War Afloat

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Union Jacks: Yankee Sailors in the Civil War by Michael J. Bennett

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The Civil War: A Narrative, Volume 2: Fredericksburg to Meridian by Shelby Foote

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Shelby Foote

Capital Navy: The Men, Ships And Operations Of The James River Squadron by John M. Coski

Capital Navy: The Men, Ships And Operations Of The James River Squadron

John M. Coski

Commanding Lincoln's Navy: Union Naval Leadership During the Civil War by Stephen R. Taaffe

Commanding Lincoln's Navy: Union Naval Leadership During the Civil War

Stephen R. Taaffe

The Civil War: A Narrative, Volume 3: Red River to Appomattox by Shelby Foote

The Civil War: A Narrative, Volume 3: Red River to Appomattox

Shelby Foote

Lincoln and His Admirals by Craig Symonds

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Craig Symonds

From Cape Charles to Cape Fear: The North Atlantic Blockading Squadron during the Civil War (Alabama Fire Ant) by Mr. Robert M. Browning Jr

From Cape Charles to Cape Fear: The North Atlantic Blockading Squadron during the Civil War (Alabama Fire Ant)

Mr. Robert M. Browning Jr

The Alabama and the Kearsarge: The Sailor's Civil War by William Marvel

The Alabama and the Kearsarge: The Sailor's Civil War

William Marvel

Lee's Tar Heels: The Pettigrew-Kirkland-MacRae Brigade by Earl J. Hess

Lee's Tar Heels: The Pettigrew-Kirkland-MacRae Brigade

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Divided Waters: The Naval History of the Civil War by Ivan Musicant

Divided Waters: The Naval History of the Civil War

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The Price of Admiralty: The Evolution of Naval Warfare by John Keegan

The Price of Admiralty: The Evolution of Naval Warfare

John Keegan

West Wind, Flood Tide: The Battle of Mobile Bay by Jack Friend

West Wind, Flood Tide: The Battle of Mobile Bay

Jack Friend

Mr. Lincoln's Army by Bruce Catton

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A Year on a Monitor and the Destruction of Fort Sumter by Alvah F. Hunter

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Lifeline of the Confederacy: Blockade Running During the Civil War by Stephen R. Wise

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Stephen R. Wise

The Civil War: A Narrative, Volume 1: Fort Sumter to Perryville by Shelby Foote

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Shelby Foote

The Coming Fury by Bruce Catton

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Bruce Catton

Strangling the Confederacy: Coastal Operations in the American Civil War by Kevin Dougherty

Strangling the Confederacy: Coastal Operations in the American Civil War

Kevin Dougherty

Blockade Runners of the Confederacy by Hamilton Cochran

Blockade Runners of the Confederacy

Hamilton Cochran

The Civil War: An Illustrated History by Geoffrey C. Ward

The Civil War: An Illustrated History

Geoffrey C. Ward

Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the U.S. Navy by Ian W. Toll

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Ian W. Toll

The Army of the Potomac: Glory Road by Bruce Catton

The Army of the Potomac: Glory Road

Bruce Catton

Ellet's Brigade : the strangest outfit of all by Chester G. Hearn

Ellet's Brigade : the strangest outfit of all

Chester G. Hearn

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Confederate Struggle for Command: General James Longstreet and the First Corps in the West by Alexander Mendoza

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Alexander Mendoza

The Old Steam Navy: Frigates, Sloops, and Gunboats, 1815-1885 by Donald L. Canney

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Donald L. Canney

A Stillness at Appomattox by Bruce Catton

A Stillness at Appomattox

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War on the Waters: The Union and Confederate Navies, 1861-1865 by James M. McPherson

War on the Waters: The Union and Confederate Navies, 1861-1865

James M. McPherson

Banners to the Breeze: The Kentucky Campaign, Corinth, and Stones River by Earl J. Hess

Banners to the Breeze: The Kentucky Campaign, Corinth, and Stones River

Earl J. Hess

Now for the Contest: Coastal and Oceanic Naval Operations in the Civil War by William H. Roberts

Now for the Contest: Coastal and Oceanic Naval Operations in the Civil War

William H. Roberts

Gate of Hell: Campaign for Charleston Harbor, 1863 by Stephen R. Wise

Gate of Hell: Campaign for Charleston Harbor, 1863

Stephen R. Wise

Terrible Swift Sword by Bruce Catton

Terrible Swift Sword

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Northern Naval Superiority and the Economics of the American Civil War by David G. Surdam

Northern Naval Superiority and the Economics of the American Civil War

David G. Surdam

The Bloody Crucible of Courage: Fighting Methods and Combat Experience of the Civil War by Brent Nosworthy

The Bloody Crucible of Courage: Fighting Methods and Combat Experience of the Civil War

Brent Nosworthy

Gettysburg by Stephen W. Sears

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This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust

This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War

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Naval Strategies in the Civil War: Confederate Innovations and Federal Opportunism by Jay W. Simson

Naval Strategies in the Civil War: Confederate Innovations and Federal Opportunism

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Hurricane of Fire: The Union Assault on Fort Fisher by Charles M. Robinson III

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The American Civil War: A Military History by John Keegan

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