Civil War | Article 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.
Rev War | Article Bushnell’s Turtle: A Revolutionary Submarine Learn how the Continental Congress let one quiet inventor prove himself, changing the seascape of naval warfare forever.
Civil War | Article 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...
Civil War | Article 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...
Rev War | Video 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...
Civil War | Article 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...
Rev War | Biography 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...