SUGGESTED READINGS
Ammen, Daniel, The Navy in the Civil War: The Atlantic Coast (1883, 1960, 1962). Carse, Robert, Blockade (1958). Dufour, Charles L., The Night the War Was Lost (1960). Durkin, Joseph T., Stephen R. Mallory: Confederate Navy Chief (1954). Gosnell, H. Allen, Guns on the Western Waters (1949). Horn, Stanley F., Gallant Rebel (1947). Jones, Virgil C., The Civil War at Sea (3 vols., 1960-62). Lewis, Charles L., David Glasgow Farragut, Our First Admiral (2 vols., 1941-43). Mahan, Alfred T., The Navy in the Civil War: The Gulf and Inland Waters (1883, 1960, 1962). Merrill, James M., The Rebel Shore (1957). Porter, David D., The Naval History of the Civil War (1886). Robinson, William M., Jr., The Confederate Privateers (1928). Scharf, J. Thomas, History of the Confederate States Navy (1887). Semmes, Raphael, Service Afloat (1903). ____, The Confederate Raider Alabama (1962). Sinclair, Arthur, Two Years on the Alabama (1895). Soley, James R., The Navy in the Civil War: The Blockade and the Cruisers (1883, 1960, 1962). West, Richard S., Jr., Gideon Welles: Lincoln’s Navy Department (1943). ____, Mr. Lincoln’s Navy (1957). White, William and Ruth, Tin Can on a Shingle (1957).
Young boys known as “Powder Monkeys” served on almost every warship in the Civil War. This little sailor stands on the deck of the U.S.S. New Hampshire.