Ready for War? The Union Navy in 1861
During the first year of the Civil War, the U. S. Navy developed into a powerful weapon that helped the Union win the ultimate victory.
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Bushnell’s Turtle: A Revolutionary Submarine
Learn how the Continental Congress let one quiet inventor prove himself, changing the seascape of naval warfare forever.
New Orleans in the Civil War
New Orleans’ role in the Civil War was, perhaps, as unique as the city itself. The largest city in the South at the time of the war, New Orleans...
Forgotten Monitor: The Story of the USS Tecumseh
By the spring of 1864, Rear Admiral David G. Farragut had developed a case of “Monitor Fever.” Since early in the war, when he was named to command...
Flatboats: Small Boats, Revolutionary Impact
VIDEO | The Royal Navy outgunned the Continentals during the Revolutionary War. But on the waterways of the Thirteen Colonies, the most important...
Gunfight on the Water
By January 1865, Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant’s armies in Virginia had a choke hold on the Confederate railroad center at Petersburg and the capital city...
Thomas Graves
Born in 1725 into a naval family in Cornwall, England, Thomas Graves followed his father into service. At an early age, Graves served in the West...